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A voice proceeding from a speaking-trumpet or stentorophonic tube, such as Sir Samuel Moreland invented to be used at sea.
“I heard a formidable noise
Loud as the stentrophonic voice,
That roared far off, ‘Dispatch! and strip!ʹ”
Butler: Hudibras, iii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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