He touched off in quick succession a set of fierce rockets, angry catherine wheels, loudly exploding squibs—and the matter might have turned out very serious.
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catherine wheel
Trevithick's engine comprised a boiler feeding a hollow axle to route the steam to acatherinewheel with two fine-bore steam jets on its circumference.
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It is rather like the last few spluttering turns of an extinguishingcatherinewheel.
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The contents of my head are now spinning round like acatherinewheel.
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I come from the old school of sparklers and catherine wheels; the worst thing we had was bangers.
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