Definition of "weather vane" []

• A mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind. (noun)

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• "A few yards down the road was a frame café sporting twin antique Coca-Cola disks on either end of a faded sign that said SAL’S and a crowing-cock weather vane atop a tar paper roof."