📨 Telegram sender 💡 Electrical worker

wirer

9.9

A person who sends messages by telegram

noun

Archaic

: telegramista

During the busy season, the wirer worked long hours to ensure all telegrams were sent on time.

Examples

As a frequent wirer, he was well-known at the telegraph office.
The wirer at the telegraph office helped families stay connected with news from afar.
In the early 1900s, every wirer relied on skilled telegraph operators for quick service.
The wirer waited anxiously at the counter for a response from the city office.
The wirer sent the message promptly.
I met a wirer at the post office yesterday.
As a skilled wirer, he often sent important messages for local businesses.

Synonyms

telegraph operator

vswirer

Archaic

2 7.1

A person who sends and receives long-distance messages along wires

focuses on sending messages rather than two way handling

telegrapher

vswirer

Archaic

1 9.2

A person who sends and receives messages by coded signals over wires

sends messages only rather than handling both sending and receiving

telegraphist

vswirer

Archaic

8.9

A person who sends and receives messages by telegraph

sends messages only, not tasked with receiving them

cabler

vswirer

Archaic

9.9

A person who sends messages by cable between distant places

sends messages generally, not limited to cable transmission

teletypist

vswirer

Archaic

9.8

A person who uses a teletype machine to type and send written messages

sends one way short dispatched messages rather than operating such machines

Surface Forms

wirer singular

wirers plural

Morphology

wirer = wire (opaque) = wire + er

The form is clearly built from 'wire' + '-er', but the verb sense 'to send a telegram' is specialized and not readily recoverable for most learners.

Etymology

Wirer comes from the use of the telegraph wire to send messages. A helpful way to remember it is that people 'sent things over the wire', so a wirer was someone who sent a telegram.