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Dog-VANE
Dog-VANE, (panon, Fr.) a small light vane, formed of a piece of packthread about two feet in length, upon which are fixed five or six thin slices of cork stuck full of light feathers. It is usually fastened to the top of a staff two yards high, which is placed on the top of the ship's side on the quarter-deck, in order to shew the direction of the wind to the helmsman, particularly in a dark night, or when the wind is extremely feeble.
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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/1439.html