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Cartwheel   /kˈɑrtwˌil/   Listen
Cartwheel

noun
1.
A wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim.
2.
Acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel.
3.
A dollar made of silver.  Synonym: silver dollar.
verb
1.
Do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet.






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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

... he has a Rival As we roll down History's Track— For the "Anti" on the Cartwheel Thinks she makes the ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... come solely to hear the new pianiste. The music-lovers were mostly dowdy in their attire, and seemed a race apart. Among them were several young women of the Blessed Damozel school, who wore flowing garments of sap-green or orche, or puffed raiment of Venetian red, and among whom the cartwheel hat, the Elizabethan sleeve, and the Toby frill ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... and duodecimos huddled pell-mell together. But when some approach to a definite style is achieved, how noble will be the radiating vistas of this spacious city! The plan of the avenues and streets, as has been aptly said, suggests a cartwheel superimposed upon a gridiron—an arrangement, by the way, which may be studied on a small scale in Carlsruhe. The result is dire bewilderment to the traveller; my bump of locality, usually not ill-developed, seems ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer

... of hunger a long way from satisfied, John Johnson tried to "palm" a fourth biscuit while surreptitiously reaching for a third. Unfortunately John was not sufficiently practised in the art of legerdemain and the biscuit slipped from his fingers. It fell off the table and rolled like a cartwheel to ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart

... them; they will only work in the mellow ground between the drills. Drive over a field of wheat exposed to injury from wire-worms with a common ox-cart, and you will notice a marked difference; wherever the cartwheel passed over, the wheat remains unharmed by the wire-worm, while on either side much of it will be destroyed. But the wheat-midge, or weevil, is the great enemy, rendering the cultivation of wheat in some localities useless. One precaution is, to get the wheat forward ...
— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden



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