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wind sock

wind sock is the alternative form of windsock.

Meaning of windsock

Noun

windsock (plural windsocks)

  1. A large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed, used especially at smaller airfields.

Forms of wind sock

pluralwind socks

Questions about wind sock

What is wind sock the alternative form of?
Wind sock is the alternative form of windsock.

Words near wind sock in the dictionary

  1. wind shield
  2. wind shields
  3. wind shift
  4. wind sleeve
  5. wind sleeves
  6. wind sock
  7. wind socks
  8. wind speed
  9. wind speeds
  10. wind sprint
  11. wind sprints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wind sock (page history and authors); windsock (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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