Meaning of cartwheel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The wheel of a cart.
2. The wheel of a cart
3. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
4. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions
5. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   UK, historical, obsolete, slang
6. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings
7. A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
   US, historical, obsolete, slang
8. A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979
9. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel

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Examples

“Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.”

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