pinwheel

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A toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic pinned to a stick so that they revolve when blown on.

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A firework that forms a rotating wheel of colored flames.

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A wheel with a circle of pins at right angles to its face, used as a tripping device.

In tanning, to subject to the action of the pinwheel.

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A contrate wheel in which the cogs are pins set into the disk.

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In tanning, a stout circular box containing warm water or water and melted tallow, in which hides are rolled about over strong wooden pins fastened to the inner circumference of the box.

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A kind of firework, consisting of a long paper case filled with a combustible composition and wound spirally about a disk of pasteboard or wood. When it is supported vertically on a pivot, and ignited, it revolves rapidly, forming a wheel of fire.

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a fake flower with the stump, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.

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a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel

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A cogged (toothed) gear.