whistler Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States painter (1834-1903)
    James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
  2. noun someone who makes a loud high sound
  3. noun large North American mountain marmot
    Marmota caligata; whistling marmot; hoary marmot.
  4. noun large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions
    Bucephela clangula; goldeneye.
  5. noun Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
    thickhead.

WordNet

Whis"tler noun
Etymology
AS. hwistlere.
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
  2. (Zoöl.) (a) The ring ousel. (b) The widgeon. Prov. Eng. (c) The golden-eye. (d) The golden plover and the gray plover.
  3. (Zoöl.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
  4. (Zoöl.) The whistlefish.

Webster 1913