A movable device attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind.
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Examples for "weathervane "
Examples for "weathervane "
1 He saw the port admiral's house with its tower and fine gilded weathervane .
2 Harlen was moving like a jerky weathervane in a strong wind.
3 Even the old weathervane with the silhouette of Father Time against the sky.
4 Above the spinning brass cock of the weathervane hung only a blank sky.
5 The city hall burned right down until there was nothing left but the weathervane .
1 Puffs of wind rustled my pages; the weather vane shuddered, clocked around.
2 You can hardly name them unless you look at the weather vane .
3 Her face turned toward Beatrice like an antique weather vane swinging around.
4 The old weather vane with the bullet marks upon it is still preserved.
5 Then I remembered that I had tied my horse to the weather vane .
1 Now Mr. Laurence is looking up at the sky and the weathercock .
2 I can see that weathercock , on that large house near the park.
3 Round came Sir John like the Blossholme weathercock on a gusty day.
4 I once read about a very nice weathercock in 'Old Mother Goose.'
5 Four times two is eight, and four-onthe weathercock , you know-istwelve.
6 Graham, at least, was stanch and steadfast, not a weathercock like Cutler.
7 I'm a spineless jellyfish, a weathercock that whirls to every emotional breeze.
8 By the way, when did you put that weathercock on your stable?
9 This is the song the weathercock sang early the next morning.
10 But her mood changed with every breath, like the weathercock on the steeple.
11 Coupeau described a weathercock made by one of his comrades out of tin.
12 The rusty - weathercock , my lord, is often too late for the oiling.
13 Rubbing his eyes, he told her to go and look at the weathercock .
14 He'd shot a cockade off a hat and a weathercock off a building.
15 After all, perhaps you are to be congratulated on not marrying a weathercock .
16 Then there's radiation. The boy looked at the weathercock on the garage steeple.
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