v. local. [Frequentative of WHINE v.: see -ER5.] intr. To whine (feebly). Hence Whinnering vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; Whinner sb., a feeble whine.
c. 1700. Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033.
1840. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), I. 124. Lying on the floor insensible, or occasionally sitting up … executing a sort of whinner.
1854. Thoreau, Walden, xii. (1886), 227. I formerly saw the racoon in the woods,… and … heard their whinnering at night.
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 212. Poor whinnering old moneyed women.
1888. Amélie Rives, in Lippincott’s Mag., April, 453. A fitful, whinnering gust occasionally shook the dry limbs above them, wailed up and down the road for a little space, fleered sullenly to leeward, and was still.
