eartrumpet

plural eartrumpets

1. alternativeAlternative form of ear trumpet.

   Anna Kohlmann puts down the eartrumpet and admires herself in the mirror.

   2013, István Jász, Ripples of Time, page 107

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   The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

   2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124

   'I was thinking that an old lady wouldn't try and compete with a brass band by shouting into an eartrumpet...'

   2001, Dudley Pope, Convoy, page 259