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cablegram
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Word definitions for cablegram in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A telegram transmitted via a submarine cable.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : a telegram sent abroad [syn: cable , overseas telegram ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cablegram \Ca"ble*gram`\ (k[=a]"b'l*gr[a^]m`), n. [Cable, n. + Gr. gra`mma a writing, a letter.] A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note: [A recent hybrid, sometimes found in the newspapers.]
Usage examples of cablegram.
He dictated a cablegram in code to one of his banking representatives in the Far East.
His eyes saw the cablegram disappear into the zipper pocket of the bathing suit.
When she came to the subject of the cablegram for her father, and the peculiar behavior of the butler, West frowned.
The thought that she still had the cablegram filled her with a tingling thrill.
He took the cablegram envelope from her with fingers that seemed dead and wooden.
Unless I hear the newsboys shouting the extras on the streets before midnight, I shall decode the cablegram and have your secret published in every paper in town!
In the bright light of an ornamental entrance lamp, Snap was pretending to read the address on the cablegram envelope.
He was being encouraged to sneak into the cottage and steal the cablegram while Snap was busy taking a bath.
It promised Marsley he could have the stolen cablegram and code book which meant so much to him, if he came to this particular house at nine p.
But you failed - for I have that code book and the cablegram from the Far East!
The evidence was in a long, coded cablegram sent to him from one of his branch banks in the Far East.
Canfield as he took the cablegram and entered the open-grill elevator.
I heard no more until last Thursday, May 8th, when I received this cablegram, sent, you see, from Christiania.
The ensuing conversation between these two and a deeply interested and much-impressed solicitor resulted in the dispatch of a lengthy cablegram to St.
Fooled you by that cablegram that made you think I was still in London.