| 单词 | paternoster wheel | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspaternoster wheel   paternoster wheel  n. a device for raising water by means of a series of buckets on a chain; a noria. ΚΠ 1875    E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1637/1  				Paternoster-wheel, a water-raising device having a number of buckets on a chain. Named from its resemblance to the rosary. 1975    Isis 66 419/2  				The ‘Great Wheels’ of Hamā in Syria and the disputed paternoster wheel in Philo of Byzantium's Pneumatics, are not discussed in depth. < as lemmas | 
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