whistler

plural whistlers

1. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
2. Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
3. Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).

   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, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

4. A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
5. A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).

   Synonyms: hoary marmot

6. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
7. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
8. A broken-winded horse.
9. obsoleteslangThe keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.

plural Whistlers · alternative Wissler · alternative obsolete Whiseller · alternative obsolete Whisler

1. countableA surname.
2. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA resort town in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
   2. countableuncountableA mountain in British Columbia, Canada; in full, Whistler Mountain.
   3. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, named after George Washington Whistler.