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dogvanes

dogvanes is the plural of dogvane.

Meaning of dogvane

Noun

dogvane (plural dogvanes)

  1. A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind.
    • she had an ugly knack of stopping, and swinging one leg all manner of ways, like a dogvane in a calm.1826, Old Sailor, Greenwich Hospital
  2. (obsolete) A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)

Questions about dogvanes

What is dogvanes the plural of?
Dogvanes is the plural of dogvane.

Words near dogvanes in the dictionary

  1. dogtrotting
  2. dogturd
  3. dogturds
  4. Dogue
  5. dogvane
  6. dogvanes
  7. dogwalk
  8. dogwalked
  9. dogwalker
  10. dogwalkers
  11. dogwalking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogvanes (page history and authors); dogvane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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