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Meaning of WEATHERCOCK

Pronunciation:  'wedhu`kâk

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
 

WEATHERCOCK is a 11 letter word that starts with W.

 

 See Also: vane, weather vane, weathervane, wind vane

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Weath"er*cock`\, n.
    1. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally
       often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a
       spire with the wind, and showing its direction. ``As a
       wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.''
       --Chaucer.
    
             Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation.
                                                   --Longfellow.
    
    2. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and
       frequently; one who veers with every change of current
       opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
    
    
  2. \Weath"er*cock`\, v. t.
    To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
    
          Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. --Tennyson.
    
    
 

 

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