Whisker

1. n. Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
2. n. One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
3. n. Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; — usually in the plural.
4. n. That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
5. n. A hair of the beard.
6. n. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.