weathercock Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster

WordNet

Weath"er*cock` noun
Definitions
  1. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." Chaucer.
    Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. Longfellow.
  2. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
Weath"er*cock` transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
    Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson.

Webster 1913