04-18-2004, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bluffville
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Originally posted by bdjuf
vane ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vn)
n.
A weathervane.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
The movable target on a leveling rod.
A sight on a quadrant or compass.
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
sorry I don't fallow
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