0 a metal object, usually with a part shaped like an arrow, that is put on top of a high building and turns to show which way the wind is blowing from
Examples of indices include weathervanes (which indicate wind direction), smoke (which indicates fire), and spontaneous facial expressions (which indicate an individual's internal mood state).
The new owners had converted a former chicken coop with a small cupola and weathervane into a house.
It would be interesting to know which way that weathervane will turn next.
Its opinions therefore constitute a fair weathervane of the issues that confront all the people of the country.
He is wrong: at least a weathervane ends up pointing somewhere.
In these circumstances a weathervane such as the dollar is no substitute for a compass aligned of a fixed point of reference.
Whirligigs, which are closely related to weathervanes, most commonly represent a standing figure with paddled arms that flail in the wind.
The tower is topped with an octagonal lantern, flying buttresses and 12 pinnacles with golden weathervanes.
