telegrapher [
ti'legrәfә]
telegrapher[ noun ]
someone who transmits messages by telegraph
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Telegrapher \Te*leg"ra*pher\, n.
One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a
telegraphist.
- Proctor's name was yanked after Macmillan found he was a Western Union telegrapher who'd inserted it in a box score as a prank.
- Howard Ross Hale, who as a Western Union telegrapher relayed reporter H.L. Mencken's stories of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, died May 12. He was 85.