windsock

or wind sock

[ wind-sok ]
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noun
  1. a tapered, tubular cloth vane, open at both ends and having at the larger end a fixed ring pivoted to swing freely, installed at airports or elsewhere to indicate wind direction and approximate intensity.

Origin of windsock

1
First recorded in 1925–30; wind1 + sock1
  • Also called air sleeve, air sock, wind cone, wind sleeve .

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British Dictionary definitions for windsock

windsock

/ (ˈwɪndˌsɒk) /


noun
  1. a truncated cone of textile mounted on a mast so that it is free to rotate about a vertical axis: used, esp at airports, to indicate the local wind direction: Also called: air sock, drogue, wind sleeve, wind cone

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