telegraphist

noun

1. A telegrapher or telegraph operator.

   “He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.”

   “But the next stations, Wamphray, and Dinwoodie, were small places, very probably with no night telegraphists.”