Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dial bearing the letters of the alphabet, figures, etc., arranged in a circle, with a pointer actuated by electromagnetism.
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Examples
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An officer in a fighting-top used a telegraph-dial, and a stoker in the depths his shovel, in a chink of light from the furnace.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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