Meaning of noria | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
2. Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.

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Examples

“The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet.”

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