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

‘Oh, all sorts of things; stand on my p. 57head, ’old ’osses, do the Catherine wheel business. 

From Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)