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weathercock

Today it means: A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel. Full definition →

Middle English wetharcoke

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Middle English · inherited fromwetharcoke
English todayweathercock

From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.