Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a vane or vanes.
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- adjective Having a
vane or vanes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of an arrow) equipped with feathers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Feathers or "vaned feathers" cover the exterior of the bird and "down" refers to the softer feathers that grow underneath the exterior feathers.
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Black-vaned against the unending white, its wings beat and beat about his head.
Corvus L. Lee Lowe 2009
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Black-vaned against the unending white, its wings beat and beat about his head.
Corvus 2009
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The basic design, a triple-vaned rotor atop a vertical shaft, hasn't changed much in 50 years.
Catching The Wind 2007
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Stolid and utilitarian of design, it was de'scending on four vaned lifting jets.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Stolid and utilitarian of design, it was descending on four vaned lifting jets.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Sometime after ten o'clock the next morning, with Lauren and Alan and Teresa in one rented car, Sam and Robin in the other, they cara vaned to Taos.
Higher Authority White, Stephen, 1951- 1994
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The crossbar was vaned and changed position with the breeze, moving with minimal changes in wind direction or velocity.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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Ramoth hovered, her wing-span greater than even Mnementh's as she vaned idly.
DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968
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Mnementh rumbled approvingly as he vaned his pinions to land lightly on the grass-etched flagstones of Fax's Hold.
DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968
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