Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In telephony, a wire over which call-signals between the call-office or central station and any individual instrument or between individual instruments are transmitted; a call-circuit.
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The services of an expert were engaged, who advised the installation of a call-wire system, which has already been discarded as unsatisfactory in Philadelphia and other cities of the United States.
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