a flat blade that is moved by wind or water and is part of the machinery in a WINDMILL, etc:
The windmill's sails are wooden vanes whose angle can be adjusted from inside the mill.
seealsoWEATHERVANE
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for vane is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is vane a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, vane is tagged as noun.
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