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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Whistling \Whis"tling\,
     a. & n. from {Whistle}, v.
  
     {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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Elk \Elk\, Elke \Elke\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
     The European wild or whistling swan ({Cygnus ferus}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Elk \Elk\, n. [Icel. elgr; akin to Sw. elg, AS. eolh, OHG.
     elaho, MHG. elch, cf. L. alces; perh. akin to E. eland.]
     (Zo["o]l.)
     A large deer, of several species. The European elk ({Alces
     machlis} or {Cervus alces}) is closely allied to the American
     moose. The American elk, or wapiti ({Cervus Canadensis}), is
     closely related to the European stag. See {Moose}, and
     {Wapiti}.
  
     {Irish elk} (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer
        ({Cervus giganteus}) with widely spreading antlers. Its
        remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in
        Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also
        Illustration of {Antler}.
  
     {Cape elk} (Zo["o]l.), the eland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Hooper \Hoop"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) [So called from its note.]
     The European whistling, or wild, swan ({Olor cygnus}); --
     called also {hooper swan}, {whooping swan}, and {elk}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elk
       n : large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the
           male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America
           [syn: {European elk}, {moose}, {Alces alces}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Elk, CA
    Zip code(s): 95432
  Elk, WA
    Zip code(s): 99009

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Elk
       
          {Extension Language Kit}
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ELK
       Extension Language Kit (Scheme)
       
       

From eng-fra [engfra]:

  elk
  	[elk]
  	élan
  
  
 

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