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no·ri·a

(nôr′ē-ə)

An undershot water wheel with buckets attached to its rim, used to raise water from a stream, especially for transfer to an irrigation channel.

[Spanish, from Arabic nā'ūra, from Aramaic nā'urā, from nə'ar, to shake, roar; see nʕr in Semitic roots.]

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noria

(ˈnɔːrɪə)

(General Engineering) a water wheel with buckets attached to its rim for raising water from a stream into irrigation canals: common in Spain and the Orient

[C18: via Spanish from Arabic nā'ūra, from na'ara to creak]

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noria - a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel

water wheel, waterwheel - a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine

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Promotion de la qualite des soins

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Teacher among 5 nabbed by cops in Tacurong City drug raids

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La bataille du Sinai

NMIA is proposed at a 650ha site near the border shared by Kedah, Penang and Perak while NORIA entails reclaiming 5,000ha off the coast of south Seberang Prai.

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The Song of the Noria Abdellatif Ben Ammar France-Tunisia

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But apart from earnestly polite tea and cucumber sarnie charity chinnywags with the likes of Queen Noria of Jordan - which resulted in last week's statement that so offended the mourning Israelis - what does she really know about life on the front line of well, anywhere?

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Survivors include seven daughters, Noria Backman, Peg Hartle, Mary Dunlap and Phyllis Shewmaker all of Cottage Grove, Marty Hegele of Roseburg, Hazel Merrill of Eugene and Marilyn Bonsack of Urbana, Ohio; numerous grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

OBITUARIES

The convoys toured the old city of Hama and its Waterwheels (Noria), which constitute a very beautiful artistic pictures dating back to the Aramiac era.