Crossword-Solution: TWEAKER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

They’re nearly as big as you get ’em in the Army now.” McTurk read the papers of those years and could be trusted for general information, which he used as he used his “tweaker.” Yet he did not know that Wake minor would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian Army ere his thirtieth year.

Sleepy or asleep he may have seemed, but let some small darkey imp of mischief tweak his patient ear, then note how swiftly that magnetic hoof will lift the tweaker to a pearly seat amidst the celestial cherubim--direct and speedy circuit of nerve-telephone here manifest, without the intervention of any dilatory central office.