dialer

noun — 2 senses

dialer

noun

UK /ˈdaɪələ(ɹ)/ · US /ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/

Etymology From dial + -er.

1

A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.

He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.

2

Business, Mining 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, […]1857, The Mining Magazine, page 128:

Derived terms: autodialer, wardialer

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