noria
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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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water wheel
vine
elevator
clockwork
moria
paternoster
deltoid
Dalia
varix
waterwheel
grain elevator
deltoidal
sakia
delts
Persian wheel
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Actual French losses were c. 130,000 by 1 May and the Noria system had enabled 42 divisions to be withdrawn and rested, when their casualties reached 50 percent.