Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A telegrapher.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

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  • noun A telegrapher.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who transmits messages by telegraph

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Examples

  • He was seven years older than me, a definite and determined leader in the Communist Party back home, and employed here on its behalf in the House of the Comintern, as a kind of telegraphist whose job it was to send the party line home.

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • As the novel's protagonist, Lillian, meets up with these characters -- a homosexual actor, a black prostitute, an isolated telegraphist in the Yukon, etc. -- the narrative becomes only more labored and the characters themselves only more an obvious effort to compensate for the fact the Lillian is essentially a cipher.

    Book Reviewing 2010

  • Each machine carried a crew of four, an officer, a sergeant as second pilot, a wireless telegraphist and an air-gunner.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Throughout the war worked for the Post Office as a telegraphist and counter clerk. 1949 obtained Inter-Diocesan Certificate in Social Work.

    Archbishop of Canterbury Awards Lambeth Degrees 2006

  • It was only far on in the night that the weary telegraphist got an answer to his calls, but then the messages came clear and strong.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Radioukacz (Polish) a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements again Soviet ocupation in the countries behind the former Iron Curtain

    Reflective Surface - Untranslatable words 2004

  • Radioukacz (Polish) a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements again Soviet ocupation in the countries behind the former Iron Curtain

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2004 June 2004

  • He retraced his steps to the telegraphist, and wrote out a second telegram to Mycroft:

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • In the end, he turned abruptly back and walked in the direction of his telegraphist.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • In the end, he turned abruptly back and walked in the direction of his telegraphist.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

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