telegrapher
IPA: tˈɛɫʌgræfɝ
noun
- (historical) A telegraph operator, one who sent telegrams.
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Examples of "telegrapher" in Sentences
- Abel, the "telegrapher," a con man who develops a conscience.
- Thus, the poor telegrapher may develop into an excellent wood-chopper.
- Every tower had a telegrapher, looking through the telescope at the previous tower in the chain.
- But when we come to the case of the nervously broken-down school teacher, or the worn-out telegrapher, that is another matter.
- Next he used the telescope to look at the succeeding tower in the chain, to control if the next telegrapher had copied the symbol correctly.
- Grant later recalled his telegrapher handing him the wire, chuckling as he read it and telling those around him, "The president has more nerve than any of his advisers."
- Some of these have passed into the slang of the day, "73" being well known as a telegrapher's expression of compliments or good wishes, while "23" is an accident or death message, and has been given broader popular significance as
- We met in the lobby at the appointed time and there began a momentous occasion of my life; to think that I, an ordinary railroad telegrapher should have the rare privilege of companionship with Jack London whose very name was a symbol of greatness in the field of literature.
- But if the poor telegrapher cherishes the delusion that he is a good telegrapher, and at the same time disdains all other employments, he will have no employment at all, or he will be so poor at all other employments that he will work only now and again in lieu of better men.
- Some of these have passed into the slang of the day, ` ` 73 '' being well known as a telegrapher's expression of compliments or good wishes, while ` ` 23 '' is an accident or death message, and has been given broader popular significance as a general synonym for ` ` hoodoo. ''
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