catharine wheel

[ kath-rin, -er-in ]

noun

1. Catherine wheel.

Example Sentences

With his hot clutches on her wrists and his hot breath in her face it seemed to her that his eyes fused into one huge Cyclopean circle that spun and spun in the center of his forehead, like a fiery Catharine Wheel against a night sky.

From Project Gutenberg

You ought to get a perfectly lovely Catharine wheel for eightpence.'

From Project Gutenberg