A windsock is a device, consisting of a tube of cloth mounted on a pole, that is used at airports and airfields to indicate the direction and force of thewind.
The hangar had a windsock on the roof.
windsock in British English
(ˈwɪndˌsɒk)
noun
a truncated cone of textile mounted on a mast so that it is free to rotate about a vertical axis: used, esp at airports, to indicate the local wind direction
Also called: air sock, drogue, wind sleeve, wind cone
windsock in American English
(ˈwɪndˌsɑk)
noun
a long, cone-shaped cloth bag, open at both ends and attached to the top of a mast, as at an airfield, to show wind direction
: also called wind sleeve
Examples of 'windsock' in a sentence
windsock
When they had finished, Hall looked up at the windsock across the pan.
Lunnon-Wood, Mike LET NOT THE DEEP (2003)
In a dip behind lay the black hangars of the aerodrome, a windsock limp at its mast.