|
|
Definition of Cartwheel
1. Verb. Do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet.
2. Noun. A wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim.
Terms within: Radius, Spoke, Wheel Spoke, Wagon Tire
Generic synonyms: Wheel
3. Noun. Acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel.
4. Noun. A dollar made of silver.
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
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. ..."
Other Resources:
