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Definition: whistling buoy
whistling buoy
n : a buoy that makes a whistling noise [syn:
whistle buoy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Whistling buoy
Whistling
\Whis"tling\,
a. & n. from
Whistle, v.
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Whistling buoy. (Naut.) See under
Buoy.
Whistling coot (Zo["o]l.), the American black scoter.
Whistling Dick. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An Australian shrike thrush (
Colluricincla Selbii).
(b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
Whistling duck. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The golden-eye.
(b) A tree duck.
Whistling eagle (Zo["o]l.), a small Australian eagle
(
Haliastur sphenurus); -- called also
whistling hawk,
and
little swamp eagle.
Whistling plover. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The golden plover.
(b) The black-bellied, or gray, plover.
Whistling snipe (Zo["o]l.), the American woodcock.
Whistling swan. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The European whooper swan; -- called also
wild swan,
and
elk.
(b) An American swan (
Olor columbianus). See under
Swan.
Whistling teal (Zo["o]l.), a tree duck, as
Dendrocygna awsuree
of India.
Whistling thrush. (Zo["o]l.)
(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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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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