weathercock

• He pivoted on his heels like a weathercock, uncurtaining all those shiny teeth. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
• "Now as you see here, my weathercock is just balls deep in Indiana." —  Starpulse Entertainment News
• The Weathercock, although he had hopped into the cabin to escape the storm, went out on deck every now and then to look about him, so as to report to Capt. Noah the whereabouts of the Ark He didn't seem to mind the storm, for a weathercock is used to all sorts of weather and knows just from what quarter the wind is blowing, you know About midnight, after coming in from deck, he hopped up to little Marjorie's cabin and knocked on the door. —  The Cruise of the Noah's Ark
• Once on a time a western blast, At least twelve inches overcast, Reckoning roof, weathercock, and all, Which came with a prodigious fall; And, tumbling topsy-turvy round, Lit with its bottom on the ground: For, by the laws of gravitation, It fell into its proper station This is the little strutting pile You see just by the churchyard stile; The walls in tumbling gave a knock, And thus the steeple got a shock; From whence the neighbouring farmer calls The steeple, Knock; the vicar, Walls. —  The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1
• Some angry tears gathered in her eyes at the callous indifference of her father, who just now was revolving in the porch like a weathercock, and shouting orders east, west, north, and south for axes, hammers, ladders, cart-ropes, in case the vessel struck within reach You, Jim Lewarne, run to the mowhay, hot-foot, an' lend a hand wi' the datchin' ladder, an'--hi! —  I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

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