Catherine wheel
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Set to Carl Orff’s dramatic score, the production includes a giant moving Catherine wheel and a live chorus seated on a floating platform above the stage.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022
And the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia will spin like a Catherine wheel in the grave.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2016
LiVolsi pointed to what looked like a whipping Catherine wheel, with spikes that spurted powder into paper packets, 50 blurring past in every second.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2014
In another corner, there's a vast Catherine wheel that visitors will be able to spin.
From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2013
“Stand clear all,” said Syd, as the old man made the marlin-spike spin round like a Catherine wheel at the end of three feet of the line.
From Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea by Browne, Gordon
