whistler

Definitions

• Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
• Any of several passerine birds of the genus Pachycephala, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
• Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
• The goldeneye (certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
• The whistling marmot ().
• The mountain beaver ().
• An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
• A broken-winded horse.
• (slang) The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.