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weather vane
noun
- a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
weather vane
noun
- a vane designed to indicate the direction in which the wind is blowing
Word History and Origins
Origin of weather vane1
Example Sentences
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.
It 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.
I painted a flagpole on a barn up in Massachusetts where there was four hundred dollars in gold hidden under the weather-vane.
Then somebody noticed that the weather-vane on top of the ball wasn't turning properly.
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