Usually means: Spinning firework named after martyr.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word Catherine wheel:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Catherine wheel: Merriam-Webster
  2. Catherine wheel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catherine wheel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Catherine wheel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catherine wheel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catherine wheel: Wordnik
  7. catherine wheel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Catherine wheel: Wiktionary
  9. Catherine wheel: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. catherine wheel: Dictionary.com
  11. Catherine Wheel (band), Catherine Wheel, Catherine wheel (disambiguation), Catherine wheel (firework), Catherine wheel (window), Catherine wheel, The Catherine Wheel (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Catherine wheel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. catherine wheel: Rhymezone
  14. Catherine wheel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. catherine wheel: FreeDictionary.org
  16. catherine wheel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. catherine wheel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. catherine wheel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. Catherine wheel: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catherine-wheel, Catherine wheel, The Catherine Wheel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catherine wheel: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catherine wheel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See catherine_wheels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Catherine wheel)

noun:  (historical or heraldry) A breaking wheel, or wheel with spikes on it.
noun:  A firework that rotates when lit.
noun:  (gymnastics) A cartwheel move.
noun:  (architecture) A rose window.

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