‖ noria
(ˈnɔərɪə)
[Sp. noria, ad. Arab. nāﻋūrah.]
A device for raising water, used in Spain and in the East, consisting of a revolving chain of pots or buckets which are filled below and discharged when they come to the top.
| 1792 J. Townsend Journ. thro. Spain I. 103 Every farm has its Noria, a species of chain-pump, which from its extreme simplicity, seems to have been the invention of the most remote antiquity. 1845 Ford Handbk. Spain i. 430 The common and most picturesque noria. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1534/1 The true Spanish noria has earthen pitchers secured between two ropes which pass over a wheel above and are submerged below. |