I cupped my hand round my ear and raised my eyebrows towards my guide.
The cupped hand and ear trumpet were commonly used methods to improve sound input to the ear in the past.
I opened my fingers a crack, like a child with a secret, and smiled at the silver globe cupped in my palm.
The festival also offers a parable which reminds the hegemonic authorities that water always runs out of cupped palms - however hard you press your fingers.
He described how he cupped the water in his hand and drank it.
It consists of an electric motor with the drive shaft oriented vertically and attached to a cupped rubber piece mounted slightly off-center.
They are cupped in a whorl of leafy bracts which are 5 to 7 cm (23 in) long and also red.
It is about the size of a cupped hand.
