Stenʹtorophoʹnic Voice

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.