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Answer for the clue "Roof adjunct on a barn ", 4 letters:
vane

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"plate metal wind indicator," early 15c., southern England alteration (see V ) of fane "flag, banner."

Usage examples of vane.

I finished mounting antennas, rain gauge, wind vane, and anemometer on the roof of our control tower, it looked more like some scientific outpost than a deer blind.

With the exception of his wife and Vane a few seconds ago, Dante never touched an Arcadian by choice.

Martin and Bethel Bayman, Greg and Patsy Jeffers, Chelsea Worthington and Reginald Vane.

Tart it up a bit, with weather vanes and doodads of the sort my wife unfortunately cherishes, and it could serve as a toolshed.

At least eighty kilotons mass, with extravagant ship-bays and airlocks, old-fashioned cooling vanes around the equator .

At least eighty kilotons mass, with extravagant ship-bays and airlocks, old-fashioned cooling vanes around the equator .

He searched its maze of vanes and struts and levers, until at last he saw the swinging car.

With black rods and vanes and levers jutting in baffling array from the round black hull, it looked like a black spider flying.

For a long time to come we meet with little that goes beyond the conservatism of Hobbes, or the liberalism of Vane, and Harrington, and Milton, and of Lilburne in his saner moments.

His vanes made a quiet burring noise as he roted through the gas towards them.

Beyond the short spire and its shining cock, rose the balls and stars and arrowy vanes of the House, glittering in gold and sunshine.

He recognised that Vane, poverty stricken scribbler though he might be, was a gentleman.

Finally, using a dental fretsaw, he made two lengthwise cuts in the stem of the plunger to receive his slender plastic vanes.

Sten submachine gun still jammed between bent and battered vanes, and he pointed out to Juarez and the trooper the gray ash of a rope end still around it.

It spread its wings in a great vane and settled lightly into the snow, then it turned its great broad back to me and I could see Monro, still clad in his light cavern clothing climb down from his perch on its back.