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Cartwheel

noun

A wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim.

Acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel.

A dollar made of silver. Synonym: silver dollar.

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"Cartwheel" Quotes from Famous Books

... my future wife, as I have said. It was her own fault, for I had warned her not to go there, but she was a very self-willed character. As it was she never even gave them a run, for they were all round her in a minute. Then they made a kind of cartwheel; their heads were in the centre of this cartwheel and their tails pointed out. In its exact ...

— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard

... the way on the cars and then a little walk, and get her to a cleaner, better room, where she'd be taken care of, and in an hour you'd be back with enough nickels in your pocket to make a great, big, round, shining, full-moon cartwheel. Dearest lady, ...

— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

Words linked to "Cartwheel" : dollar, radius, acrobatic stunt, wagon tire, wheel, acrobatic feat, wheel around, silver dollar, cart, wheel spoke, spoke