| NOUN | a weather vane | weather vanes | |
| SYNO | vane | weather vane | weathervane | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- water tower was originally called the "Balkerne Water Tower", but soon became known as "Jumbo" because of its large size, which prompted the addition of an elephant-shaped weather vane at its peak.
- One version has Lipperhey observing two children playing with lenses in his shop and commenting how they could make a far away weather-vane seem closer when looking at it through two lenses.
- With the same disturbance, the presence of a tailplane produces a restoring nose-down pitching moment, which may counteract the natural instability of the wing and make the aircraft longitudinally stable (in much the same way a weather vane always points into the wind).
- A four-foot flying-angel weather vane like one that topped the original Nauvoo Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois was removed.
- For this event, Jonathan Dimbleby described him as a "weather vane" in his book "The Last Governor".
- A stone tower built in 1933/34 by François Fagnoul from Ovifat on the Botrange crowned a steel weather vane with the relieved name " SICCO CAMPO " until World War II.
- The racehorse weather vane on top of Hucknall Library, in Nottinghamshire, commemorates Golden Miller: the library was funded by Edward Shipley Ellis and William Paget, two of the partners in the Hucknall Colliery Company.
- Near the end of the 19th century, Angeline gave Roger a weather vane which had been constructed from two of his baseball bats.
- It is topped by a weather vane decorated with a tricolor flag instead of the traditional rooster (replaced by the commune).
- A wind vane, weather vane, or weathercock is an instrument used for showing the direction of the wind.
- Originally, the spire was surmounted by an iron cross, but in 1855 a severe gale damaged the tip of the spire and the cross was replaced by the current weather vane.
- and to the top of the cockerel weather vane as [...].
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