All weathercock synonyms
weath·er·cock
W w noun weathercock
- weather vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- wind indicator — a large weather vane used at airports to indicate wind direction.
- wind gauge — anemometer.
- anemometer — an instrument for recording the speed and often the direction of winds
- windsock — 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.
- cock — A man's cock is his penis.
- vane — Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.
- wind vane — weather vane.
- fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
- feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.