dial. [app. f. WHEW v.1 + -ER1.] The female wigeon, Mareca penelope.

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1634.  Althorp MS., in Simpkinson, Washingtons (1860), p. xxiii. Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2.

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1668.  Charleton, Onomast., 100. Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis … the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon.

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1674.  in Corr. J. Ray (1848), 16. I have put up in a box … a Widgeon and a Whewer.

4

1734.  Albin, Nat. Hist. Birds, II. 88.

5

1804.  [see WHEW sb. 4].

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