Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a small vane, composed of thread, cork, and feathers or bunting, set on the weather gunwale of a vessel to show the direction of the wind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A small
vane ofbunting ,feathers , or other light material, carried at themasthead to indicate thedirection of thewind . - noun obsolete, nautical A
cockade worn on ahat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)
Etymologies
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dog + vane
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Examples
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Lauritz, you young scamp, go aloft and clear the dogvane!
Chapter XV 1917
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HERE, Lauritz, you young scamp, go aloft and clear the dogvane.
Chapter I 1917
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We had literally, therefore, no mode, of regulating our course but by once more trusting to the steadiness of the wind; and it was not a little amusing, as well as novel, to see the quartermaster conning the ship by looking at the dogvane.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822
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