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whistle-wing
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any of several ducks that make a whistling sound in flight, especially the golden eye.
See: whistling duck
Quotations
1852
The silence of the forest was unbroken, save by the . . . whirring sound of the large white and grey duck, (called by the frequenters of these lonely waters the whistlewing,) as its wings swept the waters in flight. . . .
1907
The whistler, whistle-wing, great head, garrot or brass-eyed is one of the few ducks that to my knowledge, builds its nest in trees.
1956
Common Goldeneye [is also called] . . . whistle-wing. . . .