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vane
vane is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
- 3noun
The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
- 4noun
One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
- 5noun
the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
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- 6noun
flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
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- 7noun
a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it
- 8noun
mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind
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