2. Verb. (third-person singular of cartwheel) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cartwheels
1. cartwheel [v] - See also: cartwheel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cartwheels
Literary usage of Cartwheels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elocution: Voice, Expression, Gesture for Use in Colleges and Schools and by by Sarah Neal Harris (1891)
"cartwheels. —Lucy Blynn. Poor little boy—only nine years old, motherless, ...
But Christmas Day little cartwheels, turned into the streets, had wandered ..."
2. Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the by Walter Barlow Stevens (1921)
"... Illuminating Monograph—Santa Fe cartwheels—Boom Days of '49—A Legislative
Inquiry—Law of 1857—Beginnings of Great Institutions—A Mysterious Loss— ..."
3. Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay by Fanny Burney, Charlotte Barrett (1854)
"... pat of butter made up by a neat-handed Phillis of a dairy-maid, instead of
the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound. ..."
4. Canada: Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Provinces by Eva Ambros (1998)
"... the bygone days when hard cartwheels rattled over the cobblestones and the
cries of the harbormaster echoed over the water. Harbor tours and boat trips ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"Here the cartwheels could be traced distinctly, and at one spot something ...
The track of cartwheels was very manifest, and the bottom was dark with the ..."
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