noria
(noun) a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
noria (plural norias)
A water wheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.
• (water wheel): water wheel
• Arion, Irano-, oiran, on air, on-air, raion
Source: Wiktionary
No"ri*a, n. Etym: [Sp., from Ar. na'.]
Definition: A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
