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telegraph Noun (formerly) a system by which information could be transmitted over a distance, using electrical signals sent along a cable Verb 1. (formerly) to send (a message) by telegraph 2. to give advance notice of (something), esp. unintentionally: the twist in the plot was telegraphed long in advance 3. Canad informal to cast (a vote) illegally by impersonating a registered voter telegraphist n telegraphic adj
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| In that somewhat distant year 1875, when the telegraph and the Atlantic cable were the most wonderful things in the world, a tall young professor of elocution was desperately busy in a noisy machine-shop that stood in one of the narrow streets of Boston, not far from Scollay Square. It took but a moment to loosen this and raise the cover, when, to my utter astonishment, I discovered an ordinary telegraph instrument clicking away within. And that was the way Dorothy heard that the Historian wanted to speak with her, and there was a Shaggy Man in the Land of Oz who knew how to telegraph a wireless reply. |
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