2006-06-18 18:15:30 · 6 answers · asked by changeling 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I didn't think about googling it.Sometimes the mind slips ....
2006-06-18 18:33:25 · update #1
The Catherine wheel (also Catharine wheel, pinwheel) is a type of firework consisting of a powder-filled spiral tube, mounted with a pin through its centre. When ignited, it rotates quickly, producing a display of sparks and coloured flame.
The firework is named for the wheel on which St. Catherine was martyred.
2006-06-18 18:17:50 · answer #1 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catherine wheel may refer to,
(1) Breaking wheel, an instrument of torture, the symbol of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
(2) Catherine wheel (firework), type of spinning firework.
(3) Catherine wheel (window), type of spoked circular window.
(4) Cartwheel (gymnastics), an older term for this gymnastics move.
(5) Catherine Wheel, 1990s British band.
(6) Catherine Wheel, a televangelist in the vampire novel Tempter by Nancy A. Collins.
(7) The Catherine Wheel (novel), 1952 novel by Jean Stafford
(8) The Catherine Wheel, a Broadway production choreographed by Twyla Tharp, with a musical score by David Byrne (musician)
2006-06-19 01:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by young_friend 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Catherine wheel is a type of firework. I found information about it at the URL below.
2006-06-19 01:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by Irish1952 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody has given you the answer already, but I'm just gonna be oblivious of that and tell you that a Catherine Wheel is a type of firework.
Would you like to know what we call it?
Even if you don't want to know: we call it a zonnenwiel (sun wheel)
2006-06-20 07:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in addition to a type of firework, it is also an old-fashioned game of tag, more easily played in winter when you can stamp a path out in the snow. players would stamp out a path in the snow, resembling a wagon wheel, sometimes with one or more "inner rings" in addition to the outer ring that would be the wheel and any number of "spokes". the inner hub would be home where a person was safe from being tagged, but only one person could be home at a time, players ran around the catherine wheel, following the paths, trying to either tag or avoid being tagged
2006-06-19 10:57:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a firework
2006-06-19 01:18:11 · answer #6 · answered by superflygurl123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋