field telephone

noun

A portable telephone used for military communication.

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Meanings

nounfield telephone (plural field telephones)

plural field telephones

  1. A portable telephone used for military communication.

    Contact is maintained between the works offices and the men at the tunnel faces by an extensive system of field telephones.

    1951 May, “The New Woodhead Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 290
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