noun

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A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

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One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

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(Chiefly US and Canada) A wind pump style where the top of it behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but also with a wheel attached to measure wind speed.

verb

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(of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.

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(of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.

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To act as a weathercock for.

Examples of weathercock in a Sentence

The graceful bell-tower, erected in 1224-1319, named La Ghirlandina from the bronze garland surrounding the weathercock, is 335 ft.

A squat tower capped by a pyramid roof with a weathercock.

The common story is that Lippershey, happening one day, whilst holding a spectacle-lens in either hand, to direct them towards the steeple of a neighbouring church, was astonished, on looking through the nearer lens, to find that the weathercock appeared nearer and more distinct.

He was the creature of every passing mood or whim, incapable of cool and steady judgment or of the slightest self-control - an incalculable weathercock, blindly obsequious to every blast of passion.

Velocity anemometers may again be subdivided into two classes, (1) those which do not require a wind vane or weathercock, (2) those which do.

Probably a sphere would prove most useful for a pressure anemometer, since owing to its symmetrical shape it would not require a weathercock.

Above the shaft comes the arcaded bell-chamber, frequently built of Istrian stone; and above that again the attic, either round or square or octagonal, carrying either a cone or a pyramid or a cupola, sometimes surmounted by a cross or a gilded angel which serves as a weathercock.

Did I mention the weathercock on Queen Camel church, which goes to drink for the river when it hears the clock strike twelve?

In the late 1940's Capt.Holmes presented the Church with a new bronze weathercock in gratitude for his safe return from war.

But doubt may be thrown on this traditional account owing to the further statement that the image of the weathercock so viewed was seen turned upside down.

He shifted his ground in politics with every new moon, and the world fastened on him the nickname, which he himself adopted in his "champagne" speech, of the weathercock.

The building was surmounted by a weathercock in the form of a bronze Triton; it contained a water-clock to record the time when the sun was not shining.

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