A conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person.
1Miss Wedgwood, who was deaf, used an ear trumpet very cleverly.
2Aunty Bixby, listening anxiously through her ear trumpet, nodded emphatically at this suggestion.
3His solicitor, Mr. John Lawless, announced the fact to him through his ear trumpet.
4Then she picked up an ear trumpet from her bedside table and shook it.
5During most of his adult life, Joshua Reynolds made use of an ear trumpet.
6But Aunty Bixby could not get the name straight, even with the assistance of her ear trumpet.
7The ear trumpet is an illustration of a sound-collecting device, the waves being brought together by reflection.
8He'd need an ear trumpet.'
9Uncle Bertrand, who is rather deaf, has made an ear trumpet of his hand and drawn his chair up.
10Among the items was the Sonotone Corporation's pocket hearing aid, manufactured in Elmsford, which was an improvement over the ear trumpet on view.
11A deaf peer, James Butler, Duke of Ormond, placing his hand to his ear like an ear trumpet, asked Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St. Albans,-
12Kind sir, please desist: it is offending our delicate ear trumpets.
13Here, to my great content, I did try the use of the Otacousticon,-[ Ear trumpet.
14You seize the ear trumpets, and shout-
15Ear trumpets for listening through keyholes!
16(Takes hold of chain on his ear trumpet and passes him in.
Translations for ear trumpet