Mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind.
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Examples for "vane "
Examples for "vane "
1 Even a light vane of feathers fastened in the mizzen-rigging hung down.
2 The burgomaster nodded and Hans took aim at the weather - vane and fired.
3 This species of weather - vane which looked upon the pavement was the signboard.
4 The captain also had blanket control of many of the sub - vane properties.
5 A little way beyond the screen, again, stood the wind - vane and anemometer.
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 The wind vane left here in the spring shows a predominance of wind from the S.W.
2 The wind vane began to flutter and twirl.
3 Velocity anemometers may again be subdivided into two classes, (1) those which do not require a wind vane or weathercock, (2) those which do.
4 Wind vanes might be attached to this principle, and could be connected on favourable occasions.
5 They regarded one another steadfastly, questioningly, and then he turned from her towards the Wind Vane office.
6 She came upon him at last in a little gallery that ran from the Wind Vane Offices toward his state apartments.
7 The little hill of 66 feet high behind us was soon named Wind Vane Hill, and there were other meteorological instruments there besides.
8 Here we saw the weather screen on Wind Vane Hill, and a moment later turned a small headland and brought the hut in full view.
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