sounding lead

[ leed ]

noun

1. sounding line

sounding lead

/ lɛd /

noun

1. a lead weight, usually conical and having a depression in the base for a dab of grease so that, when dropped to the bottom on a sounding line, a sample of sand, gravel, etc, can be retrieved

Example Sentences

Nevertheless Monsieur de Biancourt was always on his guard, and often sent the boat on ahead with the sounding-lead.

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On the 11th of May, the sounding lead was cast, and bottom was found at 80b fathoms; a sign that they were upon the Codfish Banks.

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He in turn sold me to a ship-maker, who worked me over into a sounding lead for a steamer he had built.

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Beyond this depth the sounding-lead rests, not upon the wall-like face of the reef, but on the ordinary shelving sea-bottom.

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Yes, Tom, a sounding-lead with a great bullet, which they left at the bottom when they pulled the line in again.

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