Weathercock Definition

wĕthər-kŏk
weathercocks
noun
A weather vane, esp. one in the traditional shape of a rooster's profile.
Webster's New World
A fickle or changeable person or thing.
Webster's New World
verb
To have a tendency to veer in the direction of the wind. Used of an aircraft or a missile.
American Heritage

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

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Other Word Forms of Weathercock

Noun

Singular:
weathercock
Plural:
weathercocks

Weathercock Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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Words Starting With

WWEWEA

Words Ending With

KCKOCK

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