| 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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