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(nautical) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind..
she had an ugly knack of stopping, and swinging one leg all manner of ways, like a dogvane in a calm.
Nor was any mariner surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship’s course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.
Use dogvane when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dogvane means (nautical) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
she had an ugly knack of stopping, and swinging one leg all manner of ways, like a dogvane in a calm.
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