From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpinwheelpin‧wheel /ˈpɪnwiːl/ noun [countable] American EnglishTBBTA a toy consisting of a stick with curved pieces of plastic at the end which turn around when they are blown SYN windmill British English
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pinwheel• Slice the dough into 9,12, or 18 pinwheels.• The breezes are like a puff of air on a pinwheel.• He remembers selling balloons, pinwheels, and fireman hats to eager youngsters.• Overheada bright pinwheel of paper lanterns had been strung from the trees to the gold-leafed weathervane on the bandstand roof.• She made pinwheels of the whirling stars that had driven many a man mad. 