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(1):

(n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

(2):

(n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

(3):

(n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

(4):

(n.) The tattler. See Tattler.

(5):

(n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

(6):

(n.) An arrangement consisting of long strips, as of rope, wire, or leather, hanging from a bar over railroad tracks, in such a position as to warn freight brakemen of their approach to a low overhead bridge.

(7):

(n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

(8):

(a.) Telling tales; babbling.

(9):

(n.) A thing that serves to disclose something or give information; a hint or indication.