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weathervanes

weathervanes is the plural of weathervane.

Meaning of weathervane

Verb

weathervane (third-person singular simple present weathervanes, present participle weathervaning, simple past and past participle weathervaned)

  1. (transitive) To unbrake a crane so that it naturally aligns with the wind to prevent toppling.
  2. (intransitive) (of a grounded or hovering aircraft) To naturally align with the wind.

Questions about weathervanes

What is weathervanes the plural of?
Weathervanes is the plural of weathervane.

Words near weathervanes in the dictionary

  1. weatherstripping
  2. weatherstrippings
  3. weatherstrips
  4. weathertight
  5. weathervane
  6. weathervanes
  7. Weatherwax
  8. Weatherwaxes
  9. weatherwear
  10. weatherwise
  11. weatherwoman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weathervanes (page history and authors); weathervane (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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