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A banshee is one
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wailer
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Word definitions for wailer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wailer \Wail"er\, n. One who wails or laments.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who wails or laments. 2 A hired (professional) mourner.
Usage examples of wailer.
After the Wailer on the butte top, he was a welcome friend come visiting.
ON THE MORNING of the second day after Lansing had headed for the inn, the Wailer appeared.
It was on the summit of a hill that paralleled the trail and as Lansing strode along, the Wailer kept slow pace with him.
When, on occasion, Lansing fell behind, the Wailer halted and sat down ponderously to wait for him.
When once he had forged ahead a little, the Wailer loped easily to catch up.
The Wailer crossed the trail and followed, paralleling his progress, not coming directly at him but continually edging closer.
Despite what had happened, he told himself, it would not be a bad idea to put as much distance between himself and the Wailer as was possible.
The wailer gave out an ear-splitting scream, a note so shrill and intense it cut to the bone.
The truck was top of the line, and the Wailer provided five-star accommodations for its cargo.
The horse wailer rocked slightly, and there were sounds of horses shifting around, but it was the peculiar stillness that caught his attention.
After a certain point the wailer no longer stops between beats, he begins to weave his rap through the bars in a sort of counterpoint.
Then the wailer materialized out of the wet twilight, a short and scrawny brown-skinned man.
The letter was a friendly note from Fox, saying how much he had enjoyed their dinner and enclosing a testimonial from Mrs Wailer, who gave Ahmed an excellent character but said that he found England a little cold and damp in the winter, that he would probably thrive better on his native heath and that in any case she was obliged to reduce her household.
Of our men Diaz only caught Wailer - the result of a very gross indiscretion - and Waller would not talk: nor, obviously, did Bernard produce any others.
The two watched the sad train of ponies, wagons and wailers until they disappeared from view.