A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
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The sock electrode rendered external defibrillation impossible, however, even at 360 J.
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The single-strap closure and inner sock lining allowed for a great fit.
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A few times, she has seen Kang clutching a girl's unwashed sock.
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Twice she crossed the room in search of a little missing sock.
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All day long, the sock does its frantic routine in the gallery.
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Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
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They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
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They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
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Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
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The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
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Known him for years. Then he looked at the helipad's windsock.
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There came a horrible gargling cry; the man's tongue flapped like a windsock.
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I was dressed in this kind of orange windsock, with a hideous black wig.
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But their landing strip was dry, the windsock limp.
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He saw a long strip of white cloth flying from a pole as a windsock.
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A tattered wind sock was barely visible, flying from a long curving pole.
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You scoop the air into it like a wind sock and use the roll-top to seal it up.
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Away from wind socks, control towers, loud speakers, and beams scanning skies.
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Aldric shattered more windows with his sword, and the force of the wind socked the car harder.
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"It's been lousy." He looked up at the wind sock.
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It was air -socks capitalism where we were socializing the losses and privatizing the gains.
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The app's display shows a series of concentric circles representing something parachutists call a wind cone.
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Problem is, when you're parachuting, you don't have a good way of knowing when you're in the wind cone.