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Catherine wheel Definition


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Catherine wheel
noun
    1. A firework shaped like a wheel, which is fixed to a post, etc and rotates when set off.
Etymology: 18c: named after St Catherine of Alexandria, who apparently escaped being martyred on a spiked wheel, only to be beheaded.



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