farspeaker

plural farspeakers

1. Telephone.
2. fantasyOne who farspeaks.

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   "I wish I wasn't so messed up; I wish I was bigger and stronger. Or a Farspeaker like Kyril,” she replied in a very small voice. “You can't help what happened. As for being a Farspeaker, I don't think both of us together could reach someone with the Gift to hear us, and if we could, I don't know that it would do any good," he sighed.

   1987, Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's flight

3. literatureA device or apparatus used to farspeak or communicate over long distances.

   “Sir, we found him in the farspeaker room,” said one of the guards. “He was tampering with the equipment."

   2009, Nick Gevers, Jay Lake, Other Earths

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   Ecgbert picked up the farspeaker eagerly. "Frideswide darling! I have been wating to hear from you all the morning.[…]"

   1948, New Statesman: the week-end review

   "Let's find out whether I do or not," said Yull imperturbably, and activated the farspeaker to maximum volume. At one a voice rang out, impersonal, repetitive: the sound of a recordimal.

   1984, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time

   She held it out toward him. It was the size of a chicken egg, only broken in half. The other half of the crystal—carried by another—would vibrate in tune with its twin, allowing communication, like a walkie-talkie. “A farspeaker! Pindor gasped out. "Why didn't you tell us you had one!" "I did. Back when I first ran into you all," she reminded them. "I had been calling Papa on my farspeaker when I was snatched here."

   2011, James Rollins, Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx