wind sleeve

Questions about wind sleeve

What does wind sleeve mean?

wind sleeve means "a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind".

What is another word for wind sleeve?

Close synonyms include windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wind sleeve a common word?

wind sleeve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.