Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Whinger \Whing"er\, n. [See {Whinyard}.]
   A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a
   weapon. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

         The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with
         his whinger.                             --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.