pinwheel vs twirl

pinwheel

verb
  • To spin. 

noun
  • An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill. 

  • A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel. 

  • Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral, visually similar to a cinnamon roll. 

  • A cogged (toothed) gear. 

  • A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center. 

twirl

verb
  • To twist round. 

  • To pitch. 

  • To rotate rapidly. 

  • To perform a twirl. 

noun
  • A little twist of some substance; a swirl. 

  • A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. 

  • Any rotating movement; a spin. 

  • A prison guard. 

How often have the words pinwheel and twirl occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )