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wind vane

[wind]

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noun

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RELATED WORDS

cock, vane, anemometer, weathercock, windsock

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Origin of wind vane

First recorded in 1715–25

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for wind vane

He was two miles from the wind-vane offices in Westminster, but the way was easy to follow.
When the Sleeper Wakes|Herbert 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 Wakes|Herbert George Wells
A little way beyond the screen, again, stood the wind-vane and anemometer.
The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2|Roald Amundsen
The people are drilled, the wind-vane police, the engineers, and half the way-gearers are with us.
When the Sleeper Wakes|Herbert George Wells

With the exception of the wind-vane, which was blown a few yards into the tussock, nothing was damaged.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson