Examples from literature

• During the recent gales on the West Coast of Ireland the anemometer registered the unprecedented velocity of one hundred-and-ten miles per hour. 
• On top of the screen a Robinson's anemometer was screwed. 
• Probably a sphere would prove most useful for a pressure anemometer, since owing to its symmetrical shape it would not require a weathercock. 
• The other forms of velocity anemometer may be described as belonging to the windmill type. 
• They have their anemometer always on the twirl, and can tell you the force, or at least the pace, of a gale,by day or night.