pinwheel

Examples

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• Use the hot glue to adhere the two ends of the strip together so that it flattens into a pinwheel shape.

  Blog text (29)

• All of these are uniaxial, I think except the pinwheel, which we folded.

• Oh, and a note to self: don't eat a cinnamon pinwheel and work on the patches at the same time.

  Blog text (6)

• Henry eased next to me, flintlock raised, his hands shaking and turning the barrel into a pinwheel in the night.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Pinwheels through space like a broken doll burst through a stained glass window.

  Fiction book (1996)

• We envisaged it as a spinning pinwheel, with different sectors in each layer working together or differently depending on the focus of the activity and game.

  Academic text (2015)

• When the Dessau Bauhaus was built that year, the auditorium was located near the center of the building's triadic pinwheel, between the entrance hall and the canteen, as if to indicate theater's pivotal status within the school's social and professional life.

  Academic text (2003)

• "Gimpy started hopping on his crutches, then, balancing on a single stick, poled at the floor with the other and sent himself whirling in a circle like a pinwheel.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The children laughed as they watched the colorful pinwheel spin in the gentle breeze at the park.

• He bought a pinwheel for his daughter, who loved to watch it twirl in the garden on sunny days.

Synonyms

W

wheel

vspinwheel

∞ 1.0

A round object that turns on an axle to help move or steer vehicles

is a type with many pins on the rim used in games or mechanisms

Compounds

P

pinwheel flower

• Indian

9.9

A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and sweet-smelling night flowers with wavy petals

P

pinwheel roll

5.1

A sweet baked roll shaped like a pinwheel filled with jam and cinnamon sugar

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Etymology