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speaking tubes

speaking tubes is the plural of speaking tube.

Meaning of speaking tube

Noun

speaking tube (plural speaking tubes)

  1. A tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance.
    • […] for the next twenty minutes they were consigned to the general office while Mr Carlyle fumed and displayed his watch ostentatiously. At last a clerk slid off his stool by the speaking-tube and approached them.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
    Synonyms:
    voicepipe

Questions about speaking tubes

What is speaking tubes the plural of?
Speaking tubes is the plural of speaking tube.

Words near speaking tubes in the dictionary

  1. speaking too soon
  2. speaking trumpet
  3. speaking trumpets
  4. speaking truth to power
  5. speaking tube
  6. speaking tubes
  7. speaking up
  8. speaking voice
  9. speaking volumes
  10. speaking well of
  11. speaking with a forked tongue

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