Handset
Handset noun - Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle.
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Receiver
Receiver noun - A person who receives something.
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Handset is a synonym for receiver in device for receiving topic. You can use "Handset" instead a noun "Receiver". popular alternative
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- It would inevitably tangle, snag, knot, loop back on itself, and tended to somehow double over on itself, until the connecting wire between handset and receiver was effectively half its original length.
Source: The Southpaw - Tied Up on the Phone: One of the inevitable results of old-style telephone receivers, where the handset was permanently attached to the receiver by a coiled cord, was how quickly the connecting cord ceased to be a neatly organised smooth coil.
Source: The Southpaw - The dog strangles the handset, thus somehow strangling the operator (complete with tongue lolling out the receiver).
Source: Reaching Between the Lines
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