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sounding line
noun
- a line weighted with a lead or plummet sounding lead and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
sounding line
noun
- a line marked off to indicate its length and having a sounding lead at one end. It is dropped over the side of a vessel to determine the depth of the water
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sounding line1
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50
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Example Sentences
The lieutenant wanted two men to keep it out in the current while he used the sounding line and recorded results.
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For some days the sounding-line reached the bottom, and the soil which it brought up indicated land to be at no great distance.
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They had many things in the boat but lost only two billies, two pannikins, a sounding line and Hamilton's hat, knife and pipe.
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On a trial trip we had found a depth of 130 feet not far from the shore, so we made ready a sounding line 490 feet long.
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At the ninth sounding-station the red metal disc of the current-meter became entangled in the sounding-line.
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