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Old 25 January 2000, 01:45 AM   #24
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The term for a windsock (which sounds more like a weathervane than a windsock) was "effel" which stood for French Letter. It looked like the letter T laying on it's side so that the top part of the T always pointed into the wind.
 
 

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