wind vane

[ wind ]

/ wɪnd /

Origin of wind vane

First recorded in 1715–25

He was two miles from the wind-vane offices in Westminster, but the way was easy to follow.

When the Sleeper Wakes |Herbert George Wells
It was only slowly that it came to him that he might ask for the "wind-vane offices," whatever the "wind-vane offices" might be.

When the Sleeper Wakes |Herbert George Wells
A little way beyond the screen, again, stood the wind-vane and anemometer.

The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 |Roald Amundsen
The people are drilled, the wind-vane police, the engineers, and half the way-gearers are with us.

When the Sleeper Wakes |Herbert George Wells

With the exception of the wind-vane, which was blown a few yards into the tussock, nothing was damaged.

The Home of the Blizzard |Douglas Mawson