whistler: Meaning and Definition of

whis•tler

1. a person or thing that whistles.
2. something that makes a sound like a whistle: The windstorm was a 60-mile-an-hour whistler.
3. any of various birds whose wings whistle in flight, esp. the goldeneye.
4. thickhead (def. 2).
5. a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of mountainous northwestern North America, closely related to the woodchuck.
6. a horse afflicted with whistling.
7. a whistling sound heard on a radio, a type of interference caused by distant lightning.

Whis•tler

1. 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.