Definition of "cartwheel" []

• A handspring in which the body turns over sideways with the arms and legs spread like the spokes of a wheel. (noun)
• Slang A large coin, such as a silver dollar. (noun)
• To execute a cartwheel. (verb-intransitive)

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• "But the video shows the disastrous so-called cartwheel effect if the aircraft doesn't hit the water just right."
• "It rose to seventy-six in 1891 but then declined rapidly to sixty in 1898, and during the next three years the intrinsic value of a "cartwheel" was just about half its legal tender value."
• "Then they made a kind of cartwheel; their heads were in the centre of this cartwheel and their tails pointed out."