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• n  a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

• At dusk, while a drizzle fell from a sombre sky and a fitful breeze jerked the windsock, the Hindenburg once more poked her nose over Lakehurst.

• wind sock
• sock
• air sock
• air-sleeve
• wind sleeve
• wind cone
• drogue

News & Articles

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• The Ayes of Love
  There was this moment where we said, 'This isn't over yet. We still have to fight. Idaho should not ignore that we are not going away.by Carissa Wolf Gloria Mayer says she will finally get around to flying her rainbow windsock. A few weeks before the United States Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act--paving the way for equal treatment of legally married same-sex couples ...
  July 10, 2013 - Boise Weekly

Quotes

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• Frank-Walter Steinmeier in The Local
  You drifted around like a windsock. Then in retrospect you call that your strategy,Frank-Walter Steinmeier, parliamentary head of the opposition Social Democrats (SPD), told Merkel in parliament on Wednesday.
• Robert Redford in Philadelphia Inquirer
  The opposite of a windsock culture would be a windmill culture,Redford explains, hands rotoring. "I think there's political energy out there and I'm trying to harness it."
• Peter MacKay in TheChronicleHerald.ca
  Mr. Brison is a political windsock,Mr. MacKay said in a phone interview from Iqaluit, Nunavut. "He will move and shift just like this tax."