vane
vayn
- n mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind
- n a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it
- n flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- n the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane.
- What happens in South Africa affects all Africa and is often seen as a weather vane for the continent.
- As the hereditary chieftain of Lebanon's Druze Muslim minority, Jumblatt earned the nickname 'the weather vane" for being able to steer his followers through the ever changing .