Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Noria \No"ri*a\, n. [Sp., from Ar. n[=a]'?ra.]
   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 : WordNet®

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