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speaking trumpet
noun
- a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
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“Silence there, fore and aft—every man to his station,” cried the first-lieutenant, through his speaking trumpet.
The first thing was to communicate with them; and this I first attempted by means of the speaking trumpet.
John gave him a gigantic nod: equivalent to an answer in the affirmative, delivered through a speaking trumpet.
The Indians were still continuing their signals, and Valentine raised his hands to his mouth in the shape of a speaking trumpet.
A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his early ignorance and poverty.
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