meaning of vane
1. A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
2. Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
3. The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
4. One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
5. the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
Related Words
vane | vaned | vanellus | vanern | vanessa | vanessa atalanta | vanessa bell | vanessa stephen | vanessa virginiensis | vanessian |
