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/sˈaʊndɪŋ laɪn/ Listen

noun

Sounding n.

The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).

(Naut.)

(a)

Measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.

(b)

Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; usually in the plural.

(c)

The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

Sounding lead, the plummet at the end of a sounding line.

Sounding line, a line having a plummet at the end, used in making soundings.

Sounding post (Mus.), a small post in a violin, violoncello, or similar instrument, set under the bridge as a support, for propagating the sounds to the body of the instrument; called also sound post.

Sounding rod (Naut.), a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold.

In soundings, within the eighty-fathom line.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... are required by every large town, the Eschevin thinks, some one day, that he has discovered an infallible way of revenging himself of specialties. Guided by the light of modern geology, it has been proposed to go with an immense sounding line in hand, to seek in the bowels of the earth the incalculable quantities of water, that from all eternity circulate there without benefiting human nature, to make them spout up to the surface, to distribute them in various ...

— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago

... barbarian theology. It is rarely possible to formulate satisfactory conclusions with any degree of certainty, and before further discoveries are made we shall frequently be compelled to weigh contrasting probabilities. We must frequently throw out the sounding line into the shifting sea of possibility in order to find secure anchorage. But at any rate we perceive with sufficient distinctness the direction in which the ...

— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont

... spent the next two hours pacing backward and forward on the quarter deck, watching the hauling in of the sounding line, and occasionally casting a glance towards all ...

— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne

... got, first of all, to sail as close as we dare to that mast-stump. Then we've got to use a sounding line to find out in which direction the hull of the sunken derelict lies. We must also get an idea of the length of the hull. Then, having gotten our figures, we'll have to glide back a little way, so as to give a right-angle broadside on at the hull of the derelict. Before firing ...

— The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - The Young Kings of the Deep • Victor G. Durham

... 13,000 leagues from our starting point in the Pacific high seas. Our position fix placed us in latitude 45 degrees 37' south and longitude 37 degrees 53' west. These were the same waterways where Captain Denham, aboard the Herald, payed out 14,000 meters of sounding line without finding bottom. It was here too that Lieutenant Parker, aboard the American frigate Congress, was unable to reach the underwater soil at ...

— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne