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windsock

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windsock
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


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So it was, then, that when Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu was sprinting down the sideline with an intercepted pass Sunday, Johnson grabbed whatever piece he could of Polamalu, which in this case happened to be the curly black locks that drift out the back of his helmet like a windsock.
The pivoting tubes have a fin and work like a windsock.
Chain-smoking ART DIRECTOR in his forties or fifties is carefully looking at YOUNG ARTIST'S painting of a small airport with a striped windsock blowing in the air (from left to right).
 
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