noria

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• Here the traveller from the north first sees the Noria or Moorish water-wheel at work.

  Spain|Wentworth Webster

• The Noria, a chain of pots, and the screw of Archimedes were other forms of ancient pumps.

  Inventions in the Century|William Henry Doolittle

• Our first work on reaching the island was to erect a water wheel, or “noria,” as it was called in the book, in front of the camp.

  The Scientific American Boy|A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond