"dogvane" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1826, Old Sailor, Greenwich Hospital:",
          "text": "she had an ugly knack of stopping, and swinging one leg all manner of ways, like a dogvane in a calm.",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick or the Whale:",
          "text": "Nor was any mariner surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship’s course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.",
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        "A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind."
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          "feather",
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        "(nautical) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind."
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        "A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)"
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        "(obsolete, nautical) A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)"
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