pinwheel

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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the pinwheel will be the symbol used to represent the effort to increase awareness, Montgomery County Commissioner Judy Dodge said.

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  1. noun A toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic pinned to a stick so that they revolve when blown on.
  2. noun A firework that forms a rotating wheel of colored flames. Also called catherine wheel.
  3. noun A wheel with a circle of pins at right angles to its face, used as a tripping device.

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  • It screeched into a full three-sixty, spraying water from its tires like a pinwheel. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • The duck breast should be butterflied and the skin wrapped around the whole thing, like a pinwheel, so it more closely resembles actual porchetta. —  A Chicken In Every Granny Cart
  • April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the pinwheel will be the symbol used to represent the effort to increase awareness, Montgomery County Commissioner Judy Dodge said. —  daytondailynews.com - News
  • Each pinwheel is a marker of child abuse or neglect. —  www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles
  • Blue ribbons have long been the symbol of child abuse prevention, but the blue pinwheel was recently adopted by Prevent Child Abuse America as another signifier. —  pjstar.com Home RSS
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/ˈpɪnhwil/
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