Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embroidery, any circular pattern or unit of design open and having radiating and concentric lines. Compare
catharine-wheel , 4.
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Examples
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There were carriages in swarms, ranging from the spider-wheel gig of a British subaltern to the four-in-hand of Rajput nobility -- kept pretty carefully apart, though.
Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921
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There were carriages in swarms, ranging from the spider-wheel gig of a British subaltern to the four-in-hand of Rajput nobility -- kept pretty carefully apart, though.
Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909
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Up that street was driving a skittish bay to a spider-wheel buggy, the young man who had written to the heart-to-heart editor for
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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