weather vane
or weath·er·vane
a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
Origin of weather vane
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How to use weather vane in a sentence
Danielle Pletka, head of foreign policy at the American Enterprise Institute, has called Romney a “weather vane.”
For the rooster who was always perched on the weather-vane on the barn was up so high and he shone like gold.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonIt has certainly seen much better days, and is rather a quaint specimen of the genus weather-vane.
The weather vane on Squire Bean's barn dazzles so the rooster seems to be shooting gold arrows into the river.
The Village Watch-Tower | (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas WigginI painted a flagpole on a barn up in Massachusetts where there was four hundred dollars in gold hidden under the weather-vane.
Careers of Danger and Daring | Cleveland Moffett
Then somebody noticed that the weather-vane on top of the ball wasn't turning properly.
Careers of Danger and Daring | Cleveland Moffett
British Dictionary definitions for weather vane
a vane designed to indicate the direction in which the wind is blowing
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