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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the United States postal service, a clerk whose duty it is to decipher obscure or illegible addresses on mail-matter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

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