Cryptic crossword clue
Commercial vehicles carrying electronic wind instruments 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word VANES

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What does VANES mean?

VANES noun
  1. A weather vane
  2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid
  3. The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
  4. A sight on a sextant or compass
  5. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile

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