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Repeater

noun

A person who repeats.

Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior). Synonyms: habitual criminal, recidivist.

A firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading. Synonym: repeating firearm.

(electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again.

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"Repeater" Quotes from Famous Books

... have something done to it," put in Lionel, whose father had given him a repeater, which of course began its career by doing ...

— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... it.—"Gloved left hand he applied a gentle friction to the portal of his right eye, which unclosing at the silent summons, enabled him to perceive a repeater studded with brilliants, and ascertain the exact minute of time, which we have already made known to the reader, and ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... tell me go! I who was fille-de-chambre to une Grande Duchesse! Mon dieu! la chaleur est tres-incommode! Ingrat—parvenu! Un—deux—trois! Il est temps de se coucher." Helen had just touched her repeater, and with its soft, silvery chime, it struck three. Elise hurried away from the door, where she had lingered, in hopes of being recalled, to comfort herself with a glass of eau-de-sucre, ere she returned to her pillow. Helen got up and locked her door, and began to walk ...

— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey

... flags were displayed at our mast-heads as had been hoisted by the admiral; and the more wonderful this appeared to me, since his flags were rolled up in round balls, which were not broken loose until they had reached the mast-head, so that the signal officers of a repeater had to make out the number of the flag during its passage aloft in disguise. This was done by the power of good telescopes, and from habit, and sometimes by anticipation of the signal that would ...

— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat

... womanhood. Now the loving daughter knelt or stood by the mother who was leaving her without a sign, or lay painfully listening to the homely trivial sounds which broke the stillness of the night—the crowing of a cock, the dogs barking in the distance; the striking of the old repeater which had belonged to the Queen's father, that she had heard every night in her childhood, but to which she had not listened for twenty-three years— the whole of her full happy married life. She wondered with the vague piteous wonder—natural in such a case—what ...

— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler

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