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Meaning of weathercocks

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

weathercocks

noun

Definitions

  1. A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

  2. One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

  3. (Chiefly US and Canada) A wind pump style where the top of it behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but also with a wheel attached to measure wind speed.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weathercockhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weathercocks

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