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vanes

n. (plural of vane English)

Usage examples of "vanes".

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

By the time Tom could see again the huge wreck was veering away from him, fire in her ruined gondola and the hatches of her hold, fire flapping from her steering vanes, fire unravelling from shattered engine-pods, fire lapping inside her envelope until it looked like a vast Chinese lantern tumbling down towards the lights of London.

In the periscope screen Grimes could see a great circular patch of dead growth to mark where she had stood, with three deep indentations where the vanes had dug into the sod.