telegraphist

plural telegraphists

1. A telegrapher or telegraph operator.

   But the next stations, Wamphray, and Dinwoodie, were small places, very probably with no night telegraphists.

   1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54

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   He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.

   1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC