Cartwheel

Quick meaning: Cartwheel is a noun meaning The wheel of a cart.

Meaning

The wheel of a cart.

More Meanings

1. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
2. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
3. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
4. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
5. 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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel

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

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.

Word Forms

• cartwheels
• cartwheeling
• cartwheeled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coachwheel, wheel, clogwheel, inwheel, cartwhip, cog-wheel.

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