windsail
Britishnoun
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a sail rigged as an air scoop over a hatch or companionway to catch breezes and divert them below
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any of the vanes or sails of a windmill
Example Sentences
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“I got a skateboard and some trash bags, and it’s really windy. Can I make some sort of skateboard windsail contraption?”
From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2022
I was definitely like, “Look. I got a skateboard and some trash bags, and it’s really windy. Can I make some sort of skateboard windsail contraption? I think we can make this work.”
From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2022
Her windsail of an ear moves forward and then back, and the trunk returns.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
At four o’clock the Second relieves me, looking reproachfully at the slackened windsail.
From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William
A windsail rigged down there swung against him accidentally, and he remembered that the light touch of the canvas on his face nearly knocked him off the hatchway ladder.
From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph
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