wailer
- n a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
- DVD highlights The only Best Picture nominee to be found (legally) in stores, this excellent biopic of genius-wailer Ray Charles boasts the usual vignettes of actors discussing .
- Preston first met the Beatles years ago when he was playing the organ for the former rock wailer, Little Richard, in Liverpool.
- Motown Records is currently promoting a nine-year-old wailer named Little Lisa, who, they boast, "will become the next Shirley Temple.