Definition of "fire-wheel" [fire-wheel]

• Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "For the nomad of the fire-wheel was a girl, tall and slender, barbarically arrayed in the holiday garb of a Seminole chief."
• "What wonder if Diane built faces and fancies in the ember-glow of the Seminole fire-wheel?"
• "Curiously the girl rode toward it, unaware that the picturesque fire-wheel ahead was the typical camp fire of the southern Indian, or that the strange wild figure squatting gravely by the fire in lonely silhouette against the white of a canvas-covered wagon beyond in the trees, was a vagrant"