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telegrapher|ˈtɛlɪgrɑːfə(r), -æ-|
[f. telegraph n. or v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who works a telegraph. (Now chiefly U.S.: the technical term being telegraphist.) In first two quots., one who signals by means of a semaphore or other mechanical means (telegraph n. 1).
1795Edgeworth in Trans. R. Irish Acad. (1797) VI. 95 Flushed with victory the young telegrapher forgot his signal. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 151/2 Standing..with both discs held down and turned edgewise to the observer, the telegrapher indicated ‘attention’. 1851C. Cist Sk. Cincinnati in 1851 51 Telegraphers, 7. c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 262/1 Another..source of annoyance to telegraphers. 1910J. Hart Vigilante Girl 376 This was the room of the man who filled the manifold offices of station-master, ticket-agent, express-agent,..and telegrapher. 1932E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xvii. 177 The telegrapher..telephoned ahead along the line to have the niggers taken off. 1955H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) xii. 79 He shared Zorn's hatred of the teletype but..he sometimes operated it himself when the telegrapher was off duty. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. vi. 268 His White Guard father was just a rank-and-file, unpropertied telegrapher.
b. telegrapher's cramp or telegrapher's palsy: = telegraphist's cramp: see telegraphist b.
1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Telegraphers' cramp, neurosis analogous to writers' cramp, affecting muscles of forearm of telegraph-operators.
2. One who telegraphs a message or news; the sender of a telegram.
1865Morn. Star 2 Feb., The telegraphers take the liberty to assert [etc.]. 1890Spectator 19 Apr., If he had been flustered by the noisy memorialists and telegraphers who did their best to disturb his judgment. 1901Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 2/3 He has not succeeded enough to induce the telegrapher to desert the wiring mode for the wireless. |
