wind vane
[wind]
Origin of wind vane
First recorded in 1715–25
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Historical Examples of wind vane
With the exception of the wind-vane, which was blown a few yards into the tussock, nothing was damaged.
The Home of the BlizzardDouglas Mawson
The people are drilled, the wind-vane police, the engineers, and half the way-gearers are with us.
When the Sleeper WakesHerbert George Wells
He was two miles from the wind-vane offices in Westminster, but the way was easy to follow.
When the Sleeper WakesHerbert George Wells
It was only slowly that it came to him that he might ask for the "wind-vane offices," whatever the "wind-vane offices" might be.
When the Sleeper WakesHerbert George Wells
I will telephone to the aeronautical offices from here and we will return to your apartments in the Wind-Vane Control.
When the Sleeper WakesHerbert George Wells