Dialer

//ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.

    "He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer."

  2. 2
    A mining surveyor.

    "[…] let the dialler, with the same instrument he uses underground, run a north and south line on the surface, in any convenient part of the sett, marking the extremities by well-fixed points, […]"

Synonyms

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latcher

Example

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"He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer."

Etymology

From dial + -er.

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