Dialer
/ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.
"He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer."
- 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
All synonymsExample
More examples"He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer."
Etymology
From dial + -er.