speaking trumpet

English

Noun

speaking trumpet (plural speaking trumpets)

1. A megaphone.
   • 1866, Wilkie Collins, "Armadale", 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.