Definition of whistle

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Whistle (v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup..

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Whistlewood :: Whistlewood (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple..
Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..
Whistled :: Whistled (imp. & p. p.) of Whistl.
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..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle..
Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute..
Sorgne :: Sorgne (n.) The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The ring ousel.
Whistlefish :: Whistlefish (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden-eye.
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
Birdcall :: Birdcall (n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall..
Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Whistlewing :: Whistlewing (n.) The American golden-eye.
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)..
Whistler :: Whistler (n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air..
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