wind sock

Questions about wind sock

What does wind sock mean?

wind sock 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 sock?

Close synonyms include windsock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind 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 sock a common word?

wind sock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.