'Weathercock' definitions:
Definition of 'weathercock'
From: WordNet
noun
Weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
Definition of 'Weathercock'
From: GCIDE
- Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, n.
- 1. 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. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Weathercock'
From: GCIDE
- Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. [1913 Webster]
- Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'weathercock'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anemograph,
- anemometer,
- anemometrograph,
- anemoscope,
- April showers,
- barometer,
- chameleon,
- cloud shapes,
- cock,
- feeler,
- formalist,
- kaleidoscope,
- mercury,
- moon,
- pilot balloon,
- probe,
- Proteus,
- quicksilver,
- random sample,
- rolling stone,
- sample,
- shifting sands,
- sound,
- sounder,
- straw vote,
- temporizer,
- the weather,
- timepleaser,
- timeserver,
- trial balloon,
- trimmer,
- vane,
- Vicar of Bray,
- water,
- weather vane,
- wheel of fortune,
- whirligig,
- wind cone,
- wind indicator,
- wind sock,
- wind vane,
- wind-speed indicator