Usually means: Weathervane shaped like a rooster.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word weathercock:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. weathercock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. weathercock: Merriam-Webster
  3. weathercock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. weathercock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. weathercock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. weathercock: Vocabulary.com
  7. Weathercock, weathercock: Wordnik
  8. weathercock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. weathercock: Wiktionary
  10. weathercock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. weathercock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. weathercock: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. weathercock: Dictionary.com
  14. Weathercock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Weathercock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. weathercock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. weathercock: Rhymezone
  18. Weathercock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. weathercock: FreeDictionary.org
  20. weathercock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. weathercock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weathercock: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. weathercock: A Word A Day
  2. weathercock: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weathercock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See weathercocking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
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.

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