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▸ noun: (figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
▸ noun: (chiefly Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
▸ verb: (transitive) To act as a weathercock for.
Similar:
cockerel,
crow,
cocker,
rooster,
crower,
cock-feather,
cockling,
alectryomancy,
alectoromancy,
cockatrice,
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Opposite:
Types:
rooster,
wind vane,
weather vane,
galloping horse,
arrow,
witch,
angel,
ship,
rooster and arrow,
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