Telegraph

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To convey or announce by telegraph.

II. Telegraph ·noun An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

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