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Catherine wheel   /kˈæθərən wil/   Listen
Catherine wheel

noun
1.
A circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire.  Synonym: pinwheel.






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"Catherine wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the Arabs say the shooting stars, meteorites, are starry stones which the angels fling at the poaching demons whom they catch sight of prowling too near the palisades of heaven. I must say I like Arab angels. My heaven would coruscate like a catherine wheel, with white-hot star-stones. Away, you dog, you prowling cur.—Got him under the left ear-hole, Gabriel—! See him, see him, Michael? That hopeful blue devil! Land him one! Biff on your ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence



Words linked to "Catherine wheel" :   firework, pyrotechnic, pinwheel



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