Sumner
['sʌmnə]
Definition
(n.) A summoner.
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Examples
- Another United States patent, covering a method of duplicating or copying sound records, was granted to Charles Sumner Tainter in 1886. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Just write a couple of messages for me: 'Sumner, Shipping Agent, Ratcliff Highway. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Bell and Sumner Tainter obtained patents Nos. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Bell (cousin of Alexander Graham Bell, of telephone fame) and Charles Sumner Tainter invented the graphophone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, directed their attention to the improvement of the phonograph. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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