pinwheel

English

Noun

pinwheel (plural pinwheels)

Wikipedia

1. a fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.
2. a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel
3. A cogged (toothed) gear.

Translations

fake flower for children

• Czech: větrník (cs) m
• Italian: girandola (it) f

• Khmer: កង្ហារ (km) (kang har)
• Portuguese: cata-vento (pt) m
• Spanish: ventolera (es) f, molinillo (es) m, molinete (es) m, (Mexico) rehilete (es) m

Quotations

firework

• 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 125

  The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.

Verb

pinwheel (third-person singular simple present pinwheels, present participle pinwheeling, simple past and past participle pinwheeled)

1. To spin.

   The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.