Definition of "stenograph" [sten•o•graph]

• A keyboard machine for reproducing letters in a shorthand system. (noun)
• A character in shorthand. (noun)

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• "Before many weeks Edward could "stenograph" fairly well, and as the typewriter had not then come into its own, he was ready to put his knowledge to practical use."
• "The programme relished all the things wrong with Qwerty, and the many alternatives: some have blank keys for you to customise; others are for typing while you dive; and then there's the diverting-sounding Orbit keyboard, described by one expert as "like a stenograph machine but powered by knobs"."
• "(Bailiff (Chico) brings in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Groucho), as the Court Reporter (Harpo) types on stenograph, rips paper out and eats it; cue music)"