Vane vs Vang - What's the difference?
vane | vang |
(countable) A weather vane.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
(ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
A sight on a sextant or compass.
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) To take; undertake for.
(dialectal, as a godparent) To undertake for at the Font; be godfather or godmother to.
(nautical) A boom vang, a strap or line which exerts downward pressure on the boom near where it joins the mast of a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat.
(nautical) A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position