Siavahda
Siavahda asked Sherwood Smith:

In Inda, the Marlovans use whistler arrows to signal each other; in the rest of the series, 'whirtlers' are used on ships. What is a whirtler? I haven't been able to find a definition anywhere! From context it seems like a kind of whistling arrow, but 'whirtling' is also used to describe a sound sometimes. ?

Sherwood Smith Thanks for asking! Whirtlers is just another name for the whistler arrows.

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