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/kˈæθərən wil/ Listen

noun

Catherine wheel n.

(Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.

(Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. (Written also Catharine wheel)

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Etymology of 'Catherine wheel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Catherine wheel" Quotes from Famous Books

... the time——!" a devil who laughed used to snigger in his ear over and over again, until it was almost like the ticking of a clock during the worst months, when it did not seem probable that a man could feel his brain whirling like a Catherine wheel night and day, and still manage to hold on and not reach the point of howling and shrieking and dashing his skull against ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... Nocturne II is the picture which Professor Ruskin declared to be equivalent to flinging a pot of paint in the face of the public. But that black night, filling the garden even to the sky's obliteration, is not black paint but darkness. The whirl of the St. Catherine wheel in the midst of this darkness amounts to a miracle, and the exquisite drawing of the shower of falling fire would arouse envy in Rembrandt, and prompt imitation. The line of the watching crowd is only just indicated, and yet the garden is crowded. ...

— Modern Painting • George Moore

... worth mentioning during the whole course of the Civil War—in which the city was held by each party in turn—and that was the tussle in the Close, along High Street, and in the Market Place, when Ludlow, with only a few horsemen, held his own against overwhelming odds. The "Catherine Wheel" long boasted a legend of a meeting of Royalists during the Commonwealth, at which, the toast of the King having been drunk, one of the company then proposed the health of the Devil, who promptly appeared and amid much smoke and blue ...

— Wanderings in Wessex - An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter • Edric Holmes