weathercock

"I cannot trouble myself with every swing of the weathercock."

The weathercock and a few more slates would go, too.

He wore it about where a house wears a weathercock.

His fortunes had swung like a weathercock over the past thirty years.

The crooked weathercock would always turn it into a joke."

Many churches have a weathercock on the tower or spire.

In a wind, however, the model will only turn until the trim offset is balanced by the weathercock effect.

The pole on top carries a sphere, a cross and a weathercock.

It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock.

He shot the weathercock off his own ridiculous gilded summerhouse.

The stone church had a spire with weathercock, and was the tallest structure in the city.

On top of the tower is a recessed spire with a weathercock.

It is very similar in nature to the weathercock mode of missile or rocket configurations.

A midnight breeze turned her gently around in the air, like an unsupported weathercock.

The bunch pulled out by the weathercock had left the rest of the twigs loose in their binding.

We have already seen that the weathercock effect due to forward flight makes the tail rotor too effective.

A weathercock or scarecrow or both things in one?

These are designed, rather on the principle of the weathercock, to orientate themselves to the instantaneous local air movement.

Half a weathercock landed next to the chimney.

"See the weathercock out there, on the roof?"

Lyrics: Good morning Weathercock: How did you fare last night?

"Would you have me seem a weathercock?"

Pepys, sly weathercock that he is, stays in government and flourishes.

Last year Major Weathercock even made the journey in a gravy boat to prove how easy it was.