telegraphist
IPA: tˈɛɫʌgræfɪst
noun
- A telegrapher or telegraph operator.
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Examples of "telegraphist" in Sentences
- In the end, he turned abruptly back and walked in the direction of his telegraphist.
- He retraced his steps to the telegraphist, and wrote out a second telegram to Mycroft:
- Each machine carried a crew of four, an officer, a sergeant as second pilot, a wireless telegraphist and an air-gunner.
- 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.
- Throughout the war worked for the Post Office as a telegraphist and counter clerk. 1949 obtained Inter-Diocesan Certificate in Social Work.
- Radioukacz (Polish) a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements again Soviet ocupation in the countries behind the former Iron Curtain
- 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.
- 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.
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