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noria
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun noria has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
noria, n. [Sp., from Ar. nā'.].
A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel. [1913 Webster]
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