Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that whistles.
- noun A marmot (Marmota caligata) of the mountains of northwest North America, having a grayish coat and a shrill, whistling cry.
- noun Any of various birds that produce a whistling sound.
- noun A horse having a respiratory disease characterized by wheezing.
- noun Physics A very-low-frequency electromagnetic wave of 1 to 30 kilohertz produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning and having a characteristically decreasing frequency responsible for a whistling sound in detection equipment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name used in England for a gadoid fish, Motella tricirrhita.
- noun One who or that which whistles.
- noun Specifically
- noun The hoary marmot, Arctomys pruinosus, a large marmot found in northerly and western mountainous parts of North America, related to the wood-chuck: a translation of the Canadian French name siffleur.
- noun The whistlewing.
- noun The widgeon, Mareca penelope (see
whew-duck ). - noun The ring-ouzel, Merula torquata. See cut under
ouzel , 2. - noun The green plover or lapwing; the pewit.
- noun A broken-winded horse; a roarer.
- noun A piper; one who plays on the pipes.
- noun The keeper of a shebeen, or unlicensed spirit-shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
- noun Prov. Eng., Prov. Eng. The ring ousel.
- noun Prov. Eng. The widgeon.
- noun The golden-eye.
- noun The golden plover and the gray plover.
- noun (Zoöl.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (
Arctomys pruinosus ). - noun (Zoöl.) The whistlefish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or something that
whistles . - noun A
bird that whistles (applied regionally to various specific species). - noun A
whistling marmot . - noun A
goldeneye . - noun physics An
audio -frequency electromagnetic wave produced byatmospheric disturbances such aslightning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes a loud high sound
- noun large North American mountain marmot
- noun large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions
- noun United States painter (1834-1903)
- noun Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
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Examples
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Others bark like 'toy-dogs,' while still other kinds utter a whistling noise, from which one species derives its trivial name of 'whistler' among the traders, and is the 'siffleur' of the Canadian voyageurs.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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"The 'whistler's' call of alarm can be heard at a great distance; and when uttered by the sentinel is repeated by all the others as far as the troop extends.
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It is really simple, logical, and the electric utility cannot trick you because the meters are accurate. whistler
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It is really simple, logical, and the electric utility cannot trick you because the meters are accurate. whistler
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It is really simple, logical, and the electric utility cannot trick you because the meters are accurate. whistler
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ruzuzu commented on the word whistler
"Physics An electromagnetic wave of audio frequency produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning, having a characteristically decreasing frequency responsible for a whistling sound of descending pitch in detection equipment." --AHD
March 22, 2012