Usually means: Person who expresses grief loudly.
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  1. wailer: Merriam-Webster
  2. wailer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wailer: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wailer: Vocabulary.com
  5. Wailer, wailer: Wordnik
  6. wailer: Wiktionary
  7. wailer: Dictionary.com
  8. The Wailer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Wailer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. wailer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. wailer: Rhymezone
  12. Wailer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. wailer: FreeDictionary.org
  14. wailer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Wailer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WAILER, WAILER, WAILER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wailer (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. wailer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wailer)

noun:  One who wails or laments.
noun:  A professional hired mourner.
noun:  (mining, historical) A boy employed to pick out stones, pyrites, etc. remaining in the coal after it is screened.

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