dialer

• dialler (UK)

From dial + -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪələ(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/

dialer (plural dialers)

1. A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.

   He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.

2. (mining) A mining surveyor.

   Synonym: latcher

   • 1857, The Mining Magazine, page 128:

     […] let the dialler, with the same instrument he uses underground, run a north and south line on the surface, in any convenient part of the sett, marking the extremities by well-fixed points, […]

• Adriel, Dariel, Lérida, derail, earlid, laired, railed, re-laid, redial, relaid