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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 noria
 多斗挖泥機; 戽車; 戽水車

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 No·ri·a n.  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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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