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Catherine wheel
noun as in Roman candle
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After which he went away as a catherine-wheel, and I saw him no more.
This sends the hair all out like a Catherine-wheel, and dries the brush with quite astonishing rapidity.
The most beautiful of these is the Snow-white, looking, with its radii of different lengths, like a lighted catherine-wheel.
It seemed to Plunger, so far as he had any sensation at all, that he was performing the part of a human catherine-wheel.
The Catherine Wheel (Fig. 556), however, is the most usual heraldic form.
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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to Catherine wheel, such as: rocket, signal rocket, skyrocket, and sparkler.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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