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Webster 1913 Edition
Whistler
Whis′tler
,Noun.
[AS.
hwistlere
.] 1.
One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The ring ousel.
(b)
The widgeon.
[Prov. Eng.]
(c)
The golden-eye.
(d)
The golden plover and the gray plover.
3.
(Zool.)
The hoary, or northern, marmot (
Arctomys pruinosus
). 4.
(Zool.)
The whistlefish.
Webster 1828 Edition
Whistler
WHISTLER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Whistler
Whistler
See also: whistler
English
Proper noun
Whistler
- A surname.
- A resort town in British Columbia, Canada.
Translations
town in Canada
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whistler
whistler
See also: Whistler
English
Noun
whistler (plural whistlers)
- Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
- A bird that whistles (applied regionally to various specific species).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
- The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
- A whistling marmot.
- A goldeneye.
- (physics) An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
Synonyms
- (whistling marmot): hoary marmot
Translations
someone or something that whistles
whistling marmot — see hoary marmot
physics: audio-frequency electromagnetic wave
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