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Telegrapher

noun
1.
Someone who transmits messages by telegraph.  Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist.






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"Telegrapher" Quotes from Famous Books



... book—to tell the truth, just between you and me, I don't suppose it's a bit better book than you could write yourself if you had time. I simply wrote it because I'm an old railroad man and telegrapher myself and had ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous

... busy, vital, reckless, with an earnest smile that could win the post telegrapher to teach him the code alphabet or persuade his father not to destroy his laboratory after he had singed off his eyebrows. This may explain why he had to cram hard in the dead languages at times, with a towel tied around his head. He complained that they were out of date; ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... Court-martial Fredericksburg Further Democratic Party Criticism General Grant Is a Copious Worker General McClellans Tired Horses Generals Lost Government Needed a Dictator Grant—Very Meager Writer or Telegrapher Grant's Exclusion of a Newspaper Reporter Greeley Habeas Corpus History of Conspiracy of Rebellion Hold My Hand Whilst the Enemy Stabs Me Holidays I Am Not Quite Satisfied with You If Both Factions, or Neither, Shall Abuse You Ignored the Evils ...
— Widger's Quotations from Abraham Lincoln's Writings • David Widger

... "Cassell had been a telegrapher in civil life and joined up when war was declared. As for me, I knew Morse, learned it at the Signaler's School back in 1910. With an officer in the observation post, we could not carry on the kind of conversation that's usual between two mates, so we used the Morse code. To send, one of us ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey



Words linked to "Telegrapher" :   telegraphist, manipulator, telegraphy, operator, telegraph



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