A whiffler is somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd, waving a chain or an axe in order to clear your path.
Back in Medieval times kings and aristocrats would have whifflers to walk through the town square in front of them pushing away any
peasants who might have got in the Royal Way. However, I think that whifflers could make a comeback. They could hire themselves out in
busy airports and shopping malls and blast your way through.