Definition of whistle

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Whistle (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle..

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Whistling :: Whistling () a. & n. from Whistle, v..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air..
Gossat :: Gossat (n.) A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling.
Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The widgeon.
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden-eye.
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The ring ousel.
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..
Golden-eye :: Golden-eye (n.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
Whistlewood :: Whistlewood (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple..
Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute..
Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle..
Birdcall :: Birdcall (n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall..
Whistled :: Whistled (imp. & p. p.) of Whistl.
Sorgne :: Sorgne (n.) The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish..
Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Whistlefish :: Whistlefish (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe..
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