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Repeater   /rɪpˈitər/   Listen
noun
Repeater  n.  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically:
(a)
A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
(b)
A repeating firearm.
(c)
(Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
(d)
A person who votes more than once at an election. (U.S.)
(e)
See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
(f)
(Naut.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.






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"Repeater" Quotes from Famous Books



... in triumphal procession, and wormed his way among the crowd in search of the Countess. There was nothing, however, to be seen of her, and after driving about, and poking his way on foot into all the crowds he could find, bolting up to every lady in blue, he looked at his great double-cased gold repeater, and finding it was near three o'clock and recollecting the fete of St. Cloud, concluded her ladyship must have gone on, and Agamemnon being anxious to see it, of course was of the same opinion; so, again flopping the old horse about the ears, he ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees

... some ladies, when he actually fell in their wake and came swaggering in looking as if he thought he had been anxiously expected. He had on my fine kid boots, my plug hat, my white kid gloves (with slices of his prodigious hands grinning through the bursted seams), and my heavy gold repeater, which I had been offered thousands and thousands of dollars for many and many a time. He took those articles out of my trunk, at Washoe City, about a month ago, when we went there to report the proceedings of the convention. The Unreliable ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... close to the Freiung is to call on you. I want a first-rate repeater, for which he asks forty ducats. As you like that kind of thing, I beg you will exert yourself on my behalf, and select a ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 of 2 • Lady Wallace

... shook his head accordingly. 'Try the heart, mother,' Rose suggested, and Leonora, after penetrating beneath garment after garment, placed her hand on Meshach's icy and tranquil breast. And she too shook her head. Then John, with an air of finality, took out his gold repeater and when he had polished the glass he held it to Uncle Meshach's parted lips. 'Can you see any moisture on it?' he asked, taking it to the light, but none of them could detect the ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett

... never seen men killed at such a distance before, and thought that there was something uncanny about the performance. Taking advantage of the lull, I gave the express back to Gobo, and slinging the Winchester repeater over my back I began to ...
— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard


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