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whistle-punk Lumbering, B.C.

n. a person who relays the shouted signals of the hooktender to the donkey operator by blowing a whistle or operating an electric whistle (an occupation now largely displaced by electronic devices).
See also: hooktender punk ((n.)) talkie-tooter
- 1930 Shall honest hook-tenders and whistle punks be clocked while they eat?
- 1958 No settlement had been reached Monday in the labor dispute over introducing a radio signal device to replace "whistle punks" in the north-island . . . operations.
- 1958 "1 should truly love to see that because very shortly every whistle punk in British Columbia would have two Cadillacs in his garage."
- 1966 The whistle punk, used throughout the last half-century of logging in B.C. was usually a young fellow, just learning the art of logging.