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Weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
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weathercock
Word definitions for weathercock in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Carol looked up at the weathercock as the car drew up at her house in the cobbled square. ▪ In a wind, however, the model will only turn until the trim offset is balanced by the weathercock effect. ▪ It had been going more and ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, n. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. ``As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.'' ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel. 2 (context figuratively English) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. vb. (context intransitive of a boat English) To turn upwind because of the difference ...
Usage examples of weathercock.
Soon I would see the golden cupolas and brass weathercocks of Nonsuch House rising into the smoke-filled London sky.
At the pressure of his knees Drumfire spun round like a weathercock in a fluke of wind.
Board of Public Works was responsible: as a single item in the general expenditure the weathercock of the Palace of Legislature had had voted to it a new coat of gilt, and this steeplejack was now engaged in putting it on.
So felt he who wrote the epitaph of the builder of the dome which looks down on the crosses and weathercocks that glitter over London.
A man who preferred his grudges blood fresh, Mearn doused pricked temper to taciturn silence time and again, while the courtiers spun to their hatreds like weathercocks.
And then contemporary skyscrapers were so very anonymousno signs or names, no pinnacle statues or weathercocks or crosses, no distinctive facades and cornices, no architectural ornament at all: just huge blank slabs of featureless stone, or concrete or glass that was either sleekly bright with sun or dark with shadow.
There was not a view in the world, not excepting Chambord or the Alhambra, more aerial, more impressive, more magical, than this wood of pinnacles, belfries, chimneys, weathercocks, spirals, screws, lanterns, perforated as if they had been struck by a nipping-tool, pavilions and turrets, all differing in form, height, and altitude.
High up in the steeple, where it is free to come and go through many an airy arch and loophole, and to twist and twine itself about the giddy stair, and twirl the groaning weathercock, and make the very tower shake and shiver!
He pivoted on his heels like a weathercock, uncurtaining all those shiny teeth.