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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 whis·tler /ˈhwɪs(ə)lɚ/
 吹口哨的人,嘯嘯作聲的東西

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Whis·tler n.
 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
 2. Zool. (a) The ring ousel.  (b) The widgeon.  [Prov. Eng.] (c) The golden-eye.  (d) The golden plover and the gray plover.
 3. Zool. The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
 4. Zool. The whistlefish.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Whistler
      n 1: United States painter (1834-1903) [syn: James Abbott
            McNeill Whistler]
      2: makes a loud high sound
      3: large North American mountain marmot [syn: hoary marmot, whistling
          marmot, Marmota caligata]
      4: large-headed swift-flying diving duck of arctic regions
         [syn: goldeneye, Bucephela clangula]
      5: Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious
         whistling call [syn: thickhead]