"whewer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1634, Althorp MS. in Simpkinson, Washingtons (1860), page xxiii",
          "text": "Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2"
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          "ref": "1668, Charleton, Onomast., page 100",
          "text": "Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis … the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon."
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          "text": "With the Fish I have put up in a Box some Water Fowl, viz. a Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins, a Widgeon, and a Whewer; which two last are Male and Female of the same kind.",
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          "text": "Widgeons are common in Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely, &c. where the male is called the widgeon, and the female, the whewer. They feed upon wild periwinkles, grass, weeds, &c. which grow at the bottom of rivers and lakes. Their flesh has a very delicious taste, not inferior to teal, or wild ducks.",
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          "ref": "1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, page 172",
          "text": "the choicer fowl of mallard and widgeon (locally \"whewers\"), both in the Humber and the Tees, the former species being, of course, resident in the county.",
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        "whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope)."
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      "ipa": "/hwjuːə/",
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      "ipa": "/ʍjuːə/",
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