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teller

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Stentøj, keramik, lertøj
Gutte Eriksen, Chr. Poulsen, Bøgelund, Siesbye, Manz, Høm
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tell⋅er

  [tel-er]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that tells, relates, or communicates; narrator.
2. a person employed in a bank to receive or pay out money over the counter.
3. a person who tells, counts, or enumerates, as one appointed to count votes in a legislative body.
Origin:
1300–50; ME; see tell 1 , -er 1

Related forms:
tell⋅er⋅ship, noun
Stentøj, keramik, lertøj
Gutte Eriksen, Chr. Poulsen, Bøgelund, Siesbye, Manz, Høm
www.danish-art-pottery.dk

Tel⋅ler

  [tel-er]
–noun
Edward, 1908–2003, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.
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tell·er   (těl'ər)   
n.  

  1. One who tells: a teller of tall tales.

    1. A bank employee who receives and pays out money.

    2. An automated teller machine.

  3. A person appointed to count votes in a legislative assembly.

tell'er·ship' n.
Tel·ler   (těl'ər)   
Hungarian-born American physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and provided the theoretical framework for the hydrogen bomb.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

teller 
"bank clerk who pays or receives money," 1475, "person who keeps accounts," from tell in its secondary sense of "count, enumerate," which is the primary sense of cognate words in many Gmc. languages.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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