windsock
Pluralwindsocks
- 1A large, cone-shaped, open-ended fabric tube that shows wind direction and rough wind speed, used especially at small airfields.
Like an air-filled sleeve that swivels to face whichever way the breeze pushes it.
Before takeoff, the instructor glanced at the windsock to gauge the crosswind.
A limp windsock told the ground crew that the air was almost still.
Note
A plain compound of wind and sock, written solid, with the regular plural windsocks. It is an aviation word above all. The fabric cone hangs from a freely swiveling mast, so it swings to line up with the wind, and how fully it fills gives only an approximate reading of speed. Read direction from the open mouth, which faces into the wind, while the tail streams downwind.
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Origin
A compound formed from "wind" and "sock."