Sentence:  When the <WSD>telephone</WSD> rang on the day after Hino went down to the village , Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return , for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector 's office rarely rang unless it was important . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds