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| toll2 |
a charge for a long-distance telephone call or other service. [1/3 definitions] |
| trumpet |
a loud, piercing sound or call, especially that made by an elephant. [2/4 definitions] |
| whippoorwill |
a bird with gray, black, and white feathers that lives in eastern North America and eats insects. The whippoorwill sings at night, and its call sounds like its name. |
| whooping crane |
a large North American bird, now rare, with black and white feathers and a loud, whooping call. |
| yodel |
to sing or call out with quick changes of the voice so that sounds range in an instant from low or medium pitch, with sounds coming from the chest, to very high pitch. Yodeling is popular among the mountain people of the Alps. [1/2 definitions] |
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