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  • verb Present participle of whinner.

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Examples

  • I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

    Walden 2004

  • I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • The hitching-posts are full of whinnering country horses, and people are in town you wouldn't think existed if you hadn't seen their pictures in

    Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

  • Florimel awoke in the sweetest concert of pigeon murmuring, duck diplomacy, fowl foraging, foal whinnering -- the word wants an r in it -- and all the noises of rural life.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

    Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

  • I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

    Walden~ Chapter 12 (historical) 1854

  • I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

    Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

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