Meaning of Whistler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable
2. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
3. Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
4. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
5. A resort town in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
6. Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
7. A mountain in British Columbia, Canada; in full, Whistler Mountain.
   countable, uncountable
8. A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
9. A neighbourhood of Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, named after George Washington Whistler.
   countable, uncountable
10. A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
11. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
12. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
13. A broken-winded horse.
14. The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
    obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]”

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