cartwheel

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And it's not all finished yet," and she went to the press and brought out a cake like a cartwheel, and cut it into spokes There are not many things you can't do, it seems to me, Aunt Jeanne," I said.

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  1. noun A handspring in which the body turns over sideways with the arms and legs spread like the spokes of a wheel.
  2. noun Slang A large coin, such as a silver dollar.
  3. intransitive verb To execute a cartwheel.

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  • His fear made him shrink in closer to the cartwheel, even as he unresistingly kept my pace up this road he dreaded to walk. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • "Yes Can you still turn a cartwheel What A cartwheel, like you girls did every time the team scored." —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • I see him fall, I see him bounce from the rocks and cartwheel, a thing I have always wished I could do. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • He did a rather agile job of it, taking a header and landing on his hands and going on over in a cartwheel which would have been very impressive if he had not ended up on the flat of his back, which he did. —  115 - The Fiery Menace
  • Denny's hand jerked back as if snakebit while his brain did a slow cartwheel, trying to interpret what he was seeing by the flashlight's weirdifying glare. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
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