How To Use weathercock In A Sentence
- The result was not pretty but did show just how powerful the rudder is as she weathercocked into the downward vertical.
- Other common objects also had their names changed to make them more seemly: haycock turned into haystack, weathercock into weathervane, and apricock into apricot.
- It weathercocked slightly into the wind but coasted for what seemed like ages; finally the top section popped off and the parachute came out.
- He said that some were signposts and some were weathercocks. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- One large elm, out of the two on the left-hand side as you enter what I call the elm walk, was likewise blown down; the maple bearing the weathercock was broke in two, and what I regret more than all the rest is, that all the three elms which grew in Hall's meadow, and gave such ornament to it, are gone; two were blown down, and the other so much injured that it cannot stand. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
- ALL the city's weathervanes and banners and weathercocks held still.
- The aircraft weathercocked about 70° to the left and slid backward down a snow-covered embankment with an average slope of -13°.
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- There was dancing light on the roofs and weathercocks; and a shimmering ripple out to sea.
- “And from that day on, weathercocks have stood on their only leg, seeing everything that happens below, and pointing whichever way their friend the wind blows.” Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock
