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Inwheel vs Pinwheel - What's the difference?

inwheel | pinwheel |

As verbs the difference between inwheel and pinwheel

is that inwheel is (rare|or|obsolete) to encircle while pinwheel is to spin.

As nouns the difference between inwheel and pinwheel

is that inwheel is the inner wheel of a mill while pinwheel is an artificial flower with the stem, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind.

inwheel

English

Etymology 1

From .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (rare, or, obsolete) To encircle.
    • Heaven's grace inwheel ye, and all good thoughts and prayers dwell about ye. ? B. and PI, Pilgrim, i, 8.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The inner wheel of a mill.

    • pinwheel

    English

    Noun

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

    • Quotations

    ; firework * 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 125 *: The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • * '>citation
    • The 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.