windsock
or wind sock
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- Also called air sleeve, air sock, wind cone, wind sleeve .
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How to use windsock in a sentence
It was, almost exactly, a wind sock, but the hole at the small end was shaped—by wire—into the general form of a kidney bean.
Junior Achievement | William LeeAs the attendant pulled the chocks from the wheels, Jimmy glanced at the wind-sock on his hangar.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissAt about eight hundred feet he straightened up while he glanced at the wind-sock.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissMcGee turned to look once more at the wind sock which, for want of a breeze, hung limp along its staff.
Aces Up | Covington Clarke
British Dictionary definitions for windsock
/ (ˈwɪndˌsɒk) /
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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