Weathercock

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

(2): ( v. t.) To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.

(3): ( n.) A vane, or weather vane; - so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

is a weather vane, on which is the metal or wooden representation of a cock, placed on the top of a spire, which vane turns by the force and direction of the wind.

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