| 单词 | weathercock |
| 释义 | weathercock (once / 8547 pages) n WORD FAMILY weathercock: weathercocks USAGE EXAMPLESHe was not one of those preachers who keep gyrating in the pulpit like the weathercock on the steeple. Reade, Charles, The Cloister and the Hearth—A Tale...(2012) Paris was a penful of sheep now distracted by too many shepherds--a weathercock its most fitting symbol. Wingfield, Lewis, The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3)...(2012) And then she bethought her, that he was no weathercock, for he had come again! Weyman, Stanley J., Chippinge Borough(2012) n weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster Hyper vane, weather vane, weathervane, wind vane mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind |
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