dialer
UK /ˈdaɪələ(ɹ)/ US /ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/
noun 2
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1VERB + DIALER
voice-operated
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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, […]
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He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.
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[…] 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, […]
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