weather vane

tuuliviiri puhekieltä A mechanical device rotate rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind.
1913, w:Willa Cather|Willa Cather, s:O Pioneers!|O Pioneers!

From the graveyard gate one can count a dozen gayly painted farmhouses; the gilded weather-vanes on the big red barns wink at each other across the green and brown and yellow fields.