WordNet
n. a telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called [syn: dial phone]
Usage examples of "dial telephone".
A magnificent mahogany desk stood in the center of the room, its only electronic device an old dial telephone.
Macon imagined how safe the pantry must feel, with Rose's jams lined up in alphabetical order and the black dial telephone so ancient that the number on its face was still the old Tuxedo exchange.
The furnishings were sparse and cheap: a black dial telephone, a metal desk, a wooden file cabinet and an oak swivel chair on casters.
It was Pickford's fourth day on the job and he spent part of it programming his auto-dial telephone.
The book's real purpose became apparent when Radbard began to dial telephone numbers.
When the room was empty, the president brooded and thought about the no-dial telephone upstairs in the dresser in his bedroom.