dialer

English

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Etymology

From dial +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪələ(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/

Noun

dialer (plural dialers)

  1. A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.
    He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.
  2. (mining) A mining surveyor.
    Synonym: latcher
    • 1857, The Mining Magazine, page 128:
      […] 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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