boat whistle

1. 1.

   a whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning

   Broaderwhistle

   Part ofboat

Questions about boat whistle

What does boat whistle mean?

boat whistle means "a whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning".

Is boat whistle a common word?

boat whistle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.