weathercock
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- noun
- /ˈwɛðərˌkɒk/
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veleta
- Like did you know the word "vane" comes from the Old English "fana", - which means flag or weathercock?
But I mean, how, how valuable is that as a pledge he, he makes a, he makes a weathercock look, look like signpost.
- But I mean, how, how valuable is that as a pledge he, he makes a, he makes a weathercock look, look like signpost.
Examples
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He's as beautiful as a weathercock, yes.
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Flight of long screams rose from the weathercocks.
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- What a weathercock Sir Harry is.
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He is as beautiful as a weathercock, remarked one of the Town Councillors."
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Not five miles away, at a place where you could see the weathercock on the steeple in Alvesta, they found him dead beside the road.
Fiction book (1995) -
Those weathercocks tell the wither of the winds directions.
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Ernie, weathercock?
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The weathercock on the barn roof turned swiftly as the wind changed direction.
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In the storm, the weathercock spun rapidly, indicating the strong gusts from the east.
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The old church had a beautiful weathercock that gleamed in the sunlight.
Synonyms
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A thing on a roof that turns to show which way the wind blows
A thing on a roof that turns to show which way the wind blows
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Weathercock comes from two simple words, weather ('the sky and wind') and cock ('rooster'). Picture a rooster on a roof that turns to show which way the wind blows, and that is why a weathercock is a weathervane used to show wind direction.