speaking trumpet
Noun
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Noun
speaking trumpet (plural speaking trumpets)
- A megaphone (of the older, non-electric kind).
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale (novel), Book the First/Chapter IV: The Shadow of the Past:
- He passed his arm round a rope to steady himself, made a speaking-trumpet of his hands, and suddenly dropped them again without uttering a sound.
- 1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, Chapter XXVII:
- A short, square-built man, in a rough grey jacket, with a speaking-trumpet in hand, stood in the weather hammock nettings.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale (novel), Book the First/Chapter IV: The Shadow of the Past:
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