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VANE
VANE, a thin strip of bunting hung to the mast-head, or some other conspicuous place in the ship, to show the direction of the wind. See b, fig. I. plate I. It is commonly sewed upon a wooden frame called the stock, which contains two holes whereby to ship over the spindle, upon which it turns about as the wind changes.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 303, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1438.html