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windsock

[wind-sok]

wind·sock

[wind-sok]
noun
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.
Also, wind sock.
Also called air sleeve, air sock, wind cone, wind sleeve.


Origin:
1925–30; wind1 + sock1
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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windsock (ˈwɪndˌsɒk)
 
n
air sock, drogue, wind sleeve, Also called: wind cone 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

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