Pinwheel

Full definition of pinwheel

Noun

1. an artificial flower with the stem, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.
2. a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel
3. A cogged (toothed) gear.

Verb

1. To spin.The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.
• 2012, John Branch, Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel CreekThe laws of physics and chemistry transform a meadow of fine powder into a wreckage of icy chunks. Saugstad’s pinwheeling body would freeze into whatever position it was in the moment the snow stopped.