weather-wheel

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As she passed on her course "cleaving blast and breaker right ahead," with her weather-wheel often spinning in the air, and as the sky darkened and the waves roared louder, I thought with deep interest on what might even now be the fate of those, without whose friendly aid I should have been lying on a rocky pillow and seaweed for my shroud, near

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832 Various
Mangrove in it, as if he had been a cork, leaving him to flourish his paddle in the air, like the weather-wheel of a steam-boat in a sea-way.

Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897