A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.

Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.

A flat, extended surface such as that on an impeller of a pump. Return to .

flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.

Slat or louver material used for vertical blinds.

Element of a blind, synonymous with louver.

the vertical louvers or slats making vertical blinds.

The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.

the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft

the flat, weblike part of a feather emerging from the shaft; there are two vanes per feather The vane of one flight feather overlaps the vane of the next feather.

flattened, curved piece on revolving wheel.