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/wˈɪslər/ /hwˈɪslər/ Listen

noun

Whistler n.

One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

(Zool.)

(a)

The ring ousel.

(b)

The widgeon. (Prov. Eng.)

(c)

The golden-eye.

(d)

The golden plover and the gray plover.

(Zool.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).

(Zool.) The whistlefish.

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Etymology of 'Whistler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whistler" Quotes from Famous Books

... the deck of a river steamer, the spectacle they offered was, according to bias of mood and disposition, unlovely and drear or colourful and romantic: Whistler might have etched these houses, Dickens have staged therein a lowly tragedy, Thomas Burke have made of one a frame for some ...

— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... railroad tracks and the seventy times seven looming stacks of the mills. The white mist of the river, the grays and blacks of the smoke blended into a half-revealing haze, dotted here and there with fire. It was unlovely, tremendous. Whistler might have painted it with its pathos, its majesty, but he would have missed what made it infinitely suggestive—the rattle and roar of iron on iron, the rumble of wheels, the throbbing beat, against the ears, of fire and ...

— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... door to the left, but stopped in the middle of the room to study her as she stood framed in the doorway—a picture for Whistler. With pretty art and a woman's instinctive desire to please, she had placed the candle on a chair and assumed something of a pose. The mellow candle-light deepened the raven black of her hair, softened the tint of her gown until it appeared ...

— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... sign of triumph at having accomplished her purpose—at having forced his thoughts to leave his pet subject, himself, and center upon her. "I was thinking," said she reflectively, "what a brave whistler you are." ...

— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips

... whistler; until the crunching of his feet could be heard upon the dead leaves. Rolf pushed the hair out of his eyes, and settled himself to watch with a sigh ...

— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

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