cartwheel
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Old Norse kartrbor. Proto-Germanic *kradô Proto-West Germanic *krat Old English crætder. Middle English cart English cart Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English cartwheel From cart + wheel.
- derived from kartrbor
Definitions
The wheel of a cart.
- Near-synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel
A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping…
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.
A crown coin
A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- 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.
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A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
To flip end over end
To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
- The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cartwheel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA