An apparatus in the form of a straight or convoluted conoidal tube, used by persons somewhat deaf, to enable them to hear more distinctly.
1737. Daily Gazetteer, 11 Nov., 1/3. Committed … to Newgate … for picking the Pocket of a Gentleman of a Silver Ear Trumpet.
1776. Burney, Hist. Mus., I. 184. Perhaps Asclepiades was the inventor of the Acousticon, or ear-trumpet, which has been thought a modern discovery.
1823. Byron, Juan, X. xxxiv. The ear-trumpet of my good old aunt.
