[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

whistle \whis"tle\, n. as. hwistle a pipe, flute, whistle. see
   whistle, v. i.
   1913 webster
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            might we but hear
            the folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, .
            . .
            or whistle from the lodge.            --milton.
      1913 webster

            the countryman could not forbear smiling, . . . and
            by that means lost his whistle.       --spectator.
      1913 webster

            they fear his whistle, and forsake the seas.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. 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.
      1913 webster

            the bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. the mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of
      whistling. colloq.
      1913 webster

            so was her jolly whistle well ywet.   --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles.
                                                  --walton.
      1913 webster

   whistle duck zool., the american golden-eye.
      1913 webster
see also:
whistle steam whistle steam whistle duck 

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