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cart⋅wheel

[kahrt-hweel, -weel]
–noun
1. the wheel of a cart.
2. an acrobatic feat in which a person starts from a standing position, with arms extended, and wheels the body sideways, landing first on the hands and then on the feet and usually repeating this in a series.
3. Slang. any large coin, esp. a U.S. silver dollar.
4. Slang. an amphetamine tablet.
–verb (used without object)
5. to roll forward end over end: The skier took a sudden spill and cartwheeled down the slope.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see cart, wheel


cartwheeler, noun
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cart·wheel   (kärt'hwēl', -wēl')   
n.  
  1. A handspring in which the body turns over sideways with the arms and legs spread like the spokes of a wheel.

  2. Slang A large coin, such as a silver dollar.

intr.v.   cart·wheeled, cart·wheel·ing, cart·wheels
To execute a cartwheel.
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