Definition of Cartwheel

1. Noun. A wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim.

Group relationships: Cart
Terms within: Radius, Spoke, Wheel Spoke, Wagon Tire
Generic synonyms: Wheel

2. Verb. Do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet.
Generic synonyms: Wheel, Wheel Around

3. Noun. Acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel.
Generic synonyms: Acrobatic Feat, Acrobatic Stunt

4. Noun. A dollar made of silver.
Exact synonyms: Silver Dollar
Generic synonyms: Dollar

Definition of Cartwheel

1. Noun. The literal wheel of a cart. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

3. Noun. (American English) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979. ¹

4. Verb. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel. ¹

5. Verb. To flip end over end. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cartwheel

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cartwheel

cartridge paper
cartridge pen
cartridge pens
cartridge remover
cartridgeless
cartridgelike
cartridges
cartroad
cartroads
carts
cartsful
cartularies
cartulary
cartway
cartways
cartwheel (current term)
cartwheeled
cartwheeler
cartwheelers
cartwheeling
cartwheels
cartwhip
cartwhipped
cartwhipping
cartwhippings
cartwhips
cartwright
cartwrights
carubicin
carubinose

Literary usage of Cartwheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gymnastic Dancing: Rhythmic Exercises for Classes of Men and Boys by William J. Davison (1909)
"Turn a cartwheel to right. -5 ->-^f Counts 9 to 16. ... The "Twirl Step" may be substituted for the "cartwheel." EIGHTH STEP—"HANDSPRING": *-»--*•- Counts 1 ..."

2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"... Lat bringe a cartwheel here in-to this But loke that it have his spokes alle. Twelf spokes hath a cartwheel ..."

3. High Road to Tokyo Bay: The AAF in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater by Daniel Haulman (1993)
"Operation cartwheel The Encirclement of It aba uI During the first half of 1943, Allied planners developed Operation cartwheel, an offensive in New Guinea ..."

4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"cartwheel flaking on a new road. Fig. 2. ... cartwheel flaking. Compare ih., I 1. 20, Fig. !'. Sinai. Pétrie. I regret to see in HAX (No. ..."

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