[f. STENOGRAPH-Y + -ER1.] A shorthand writer.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., VI. ii. (1820), 365. My predecessors, who were furnished, as I am told, with the speeches of all their heroes taken down in shorthand by the most accurate stenographers of the time.
1862. B. Taylor, Home & Abroad, 2nd Ser. vii. 449. A practised stenographer … took down many of these communications as they were spoken.
1893. F. M. Crawford, Marion Darche, I. v. 136. John had sent for his stenographer.
