What is "telegraph operator"

Usage examples of "telegraph operator".

When I requested you to dictate those orders to-day at one o'clock, I had a telegraph operator listening at a telephone on the top floor of this building.

Before the telegraph operator in Biloxi was killed he got off a message.

Below, in a shielded bunker, a telegraph operator was waiting to transmit orders to every part of the outlying fortifications.

Seconds later, as he leaned over the telegraph operator's shoulder and read the message the man was jotting down, Belisarius began issuing new orders.

We dropped off a squad at every station to grab the telegraph operator, if there was one.

Quarter of an hour passed slowly and then the telegraph operator came to him.

But these are just telegrams that this guy, as telegraph operator, has copied for him.

That accounted for the fact that, except for David himself and the night telegraph operator, there had been no one at the depot who might have recognized him.

There is no telegraph operator on duty in Nahma at night, and messages are telephoned to the nearest telegraph office instead.

It just happens I used to be a telegraph operator, and it popped into my head what it was.

The telegraph operator came in with a message from Lincoln to Nicolay.