- Missile fin - Part of a windmill - Weathercock - Wind instrument - Windmill blade - Windmill part - A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the
purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is
usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some
fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it
moves freely.
- Sample windmill blade for storm canvas on yacht - Yachtsman’s option - A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a
lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a
lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.