catherine wheel

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   a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire

   Synonymspinwheel

   Broaderfirework

Questions about catherine wheel

What does catherine wheel mean?

catherine wheel means "a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire".

What is another word for catherine wheel?

Close synonyms include pinwheel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catherine wheel a common word?

catherine wheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.