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Whistling \Whis"tling\,
a. & n. from {Whistle}, v.
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{Whistling buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}.
{Whistling coot} (Zool.), the American black scoter.
{Whistling Dick}. (Zool.)
(a) An Australian shrike thrush ({Colluricincla Selbii}).
(b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
{Whistling duck}. (Zool.)
(a) The golden-eye.
(b) A tree duck.
{Whistling eagle} (Zool.), a small Australian eagle
({Haliastur sphenurus}); -- called also {whistling hawk},
and {little swamp eagle}.
{Whistling plover}. (Zool.)
(a) The golden plover.
(b) The black-bellied, or gray, plover.
{Whistling snipe} (Zool.), the American woodcock.
{Whistling swan}. (Zool.)
(a) The European whooper swan; -- called also {wild swan},
and {elk}.
(b) An American swan ({Olor columbianus}). See under {Swan}.
{Whistling teal} (Zool.), a tree duck, as {Dendrocygna
awsuree} of India.
{Whistling thrush}. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of singing birds of the genus
{Myiophonus}, native of Asia, Australia, and the East
Indies. They are generally black, glossed with blue, and
have a patch of bright blue on each shoulder. Their note
is a loud and clear whistle.
(b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Buoy \Buoy\ (bwoi or boi; 277), n. [D. boei buoy, fetter, fr.
OF. boie, buie, chain, fetter, F. bou['e]e a buoy, from L.
boia. "Boiae genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae."
--Festus. So called because chained to its place.] (Naut.)
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark
a channel or to point out the position of something beneath
the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
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{Anchor buoy}, a buoy attached to, or marking the position
of, an anchor.
{Bell buoy}, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be
rung by the motion of the waves.
{Breeches buoy}. See under {Breeches}.
{Cable buoy}, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in
rocky anchorage.
{Can buoy}, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron,
usually conical or pear-shaped.
{Life buoy}, a float intended to support persons who have
fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to
save them.
{Nut buoy} or {Nun buoy}, a buoy large in the middle, and
tapering nearly to a point at each end.
{To stream the buoy}, to let the anchor buoy fall by the
ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.
{Whistling buoy}, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown
by the action of the waves.
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