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noun

Teller n.

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.

An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions.

One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

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Etymology of 'Teller'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Teller" Quotes from Famous Books

... the house forsaken, and had already reached the end of the lane in their return, when they were accosted by an old woman, who gave them to understand, that if they had occasion for the advice of a fortune-teller, as she did suppose they had, from their stopping at the house where Dr. Grubble lived, she would conduct them to a person of much more eminence in that profession; at the same time she informed them, that the said ...

— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett

... first at the general scheme of composition and color before going near enough to study details. Carpaccio had felt the flood of Venetian color, and here we see the beginnings of that wonderful richness found in works by the later Venetian masters. He was a born story-teller, and delighted especially in tales of a legendary, poetic character. His works possess a peculiar fascinating quaintness. The formal composition, by means of which we see several scenes crowded into one picture; ...

— Barbara's Heritage - Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters • Deristhe L. Hoyt

... started at once from the middle of things, they made their story, as it unfolded itself, explain, by more or less skilful devices, all that needed to be known about their beginnings. They did not think of rules of art. They did of themselves naturally what a good story-teller does, to make himself intelligible and interesting; and it is not easy to be interesting, unless the parts of the story are in ...

— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church

... became known outside the immediate field of its activity, and in 1907 Miss Lyman severed her connection with this library to give time to special preparation, and later to become a lecturer on literature for children and story-telling, and a professional story-teller. She spent portions of three years as Advisory Children's Librarian for the Iowa Library Commission, and during that period published her book "Story-telling: what to tell and how to tell it." She holds the position of non-resident faculty ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... to slip by. No honeymoon should be shorter than that. It is meet that we should grant our quiddlers three and their excellent parent the supreme felicity of enjoying the period without being spied upon by a mercenary story-teller. But all interests, as well as all roads, lead to a common centre. The centre in this ...

— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

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