The word "pinwheel" is both correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a toy consisting of a wheel with different colored sections that spin around a central hub when blown upon by the wind. For example, you could say: "The pinwheels outside the store created a rainbow of color in the breeze."
Charlie Woo, chief executive of Megatoys, explains how a child's pinwheel, consisting of plastic sails pinned to a stick, is made in three different countries.
This last-moment arming is achieved by simple mechanical means, most commonly a small pinwheel on the bomb that turns as the air rushes past the falling projectile, and thereby arms the fuze.
Its magnet, which weighs 4,000 metric tons and is 18 metres (59 feet) in diameter, is divided into six equal sectors arranged like a "pinwheel".
The inked line for the conference table mimics the curve of the earth, which is echoed in the lines of the men's shoulders, the foregrounded arm, and the chairs, projecting a dizzying pinwheel of intellectual vacuum.
It spins like a pinwheel, and for a moment the landmass resembles a pair of eyeglasses, as if to confirm that a misunderstanding is being couched and clarified.
On display were such items as a "pinwheel" the size of a cooking thermometer (twenty dollars, no explanation), sienna patent-leather handcuffs with a matching paddle, and various chains that recalled a rappelling device.
Jazz went into the kitchen and, a few minutes later, returned with a round platter, laden with big tear-shaped leaves, minced onion, tiny lime wedges, fresh ginger, toasted coconut, green chilies, and dried shrimp, arranged in a pinwheel pattern.
Peter has a beanie with a pinwheel on top: the Bird wears what appears to be high-top sneakers adapted for pointe work; the Duck, my favorite, wears a corny little cardigan over a white tutu skirt.
It's true that he was flamboyant, immodest, opinionated, tactless, a pinwheel of affectation; he made people crazy and he became crazy himself.
Talk story about Benjamin Molin & Joseph Rosenbaum, of the Benay Albee Novelty Co., originators of the pinwheel beanie, or Atomic Whirler, who are now….
Talk story about Benjamin Molin & Joseph Rosenbaum, of the Benay Albee Novelty Co., originators of the pinwheel beanie, or Atomic Whirler, who are now putting out another model, a hat trimmed with a removable turkey feather containing a ball-point pen.
