cartwheel

English

Cart with cartwheels attached

Cartwheel silver dollars

Etymology

From cart + wheel.

Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

1. The literal wheel of a cart.
2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
3. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

     Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

4. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Translations

wheel of a cart

• Danish: vognhjul n
• Dutch: wagenwiel n
• Finnish: kärrynpyörä
• German: Wagenrad n

• Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)
• Spanish: rueda del carro f
• Swedish: vagnshjul n
• Walloon: rowe di tcherete f

gymnastic maneuver

• Bulgarian: циганско колело n (cigansko kolelo)
• Danish: vejrmølle c
• Dutch: radslag m
• Finnish: kärrynpyörä
• French: roue (fr) f
• German: Rad (de) n

• Hungarian: cigánykerék
• Macedonian: ѕвезда f (dzvézda)
• Portuguese: estrelinha, estrela (pt)
• Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)
• Spanish: voltereta lateral f
• Swedish: hjulning c

silver dollar

• Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle cartwheeled)

1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
2. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

   The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.

Cartwheel: Aú Aberto (Open Aú)

Cartwheel: Aú Fechado (Closed Aú)