Catherine wheel
a firework that revolves on a pin, making a wheel of fire or sparks; pinwheel.
Origin of Catherine wheel
1- Also catharine wheel.
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How to use Catherine wheel in a sentence
After which he went away as a catherine-wheel, and I saw him no more.
A Great Emergency and Other Tales | Juliana Horatia Gatty EwingThis sends the hair all out like a Catherine-wheel, and dries the brush with quite astonishing rapidity.
Stained Glass Work | C. W. WhallThe most beautiful of these is the Snow-white, looking, with its radii of different lengths, like a lighted catherine-wheel.
Mirror of the Months | Peter George PatmoreIt seemed to Plunger, so far as he had any sensation at all, that he was performing the part of a human catherine-wheel.
The Hero of Garside School | J. Harwood PantingThe Catherine wheel (Fig. 556), however, is the most usual heraldic form.
A Complete Guide to Heraldry | Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
British Dictionary definitions for Catherine wheel
Also called: pinwheel a type of firework consisting of a powder-filled spiral tube, mounted with a pin through its centre. When lit it rotates quickly, producing a display of sparks and coloured flame
a circular window having ribs radiating from the centre
Origin of Catherine wheel
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