Catherine wheel

After which he went away as a catherine-wheel, and I saw him no more.

This sends the hair all out like a Catherine-wheel, and dries the brush with quite astonishing rapidity.

The most beautiful of these is the Snow-white, looking, with its radii of different lengths, like a lighted catherine-wheel.

It seemed to Plunger, so far as he had any sensation at all, that he was performing the part of a human catherine-wheel.

The Catherine Wheel (Fig. 556), however, is the most usual heraldic form.