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pinwheel definition

pin·wheel (pin′hwēl′, -wēl′)

noun

  1. a small wheel with variously colored vanes of paper, etc., pinned to a stick so as to revolve in the wind
  2. a fireworks device that revolves and throws off colored lights when set off

intransitive verb

to rotate as a pinwheel does; whirl; spin

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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