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Definition of Sounding line

1. Noun. (nautical) plumb line for determining depth.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sounding Line

Literary usage of Sounding line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... been overcome— wuh hemp rope for the sounding-line ; except for very moderate depths, and for speeds much under the full speed of a modern fast steamer. ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"COMBINED LOG AND sounding line. This instrument, recently patented in the United States by Adolphe ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"On striking the bottom, the slackening of the sounding line, which is secured to the ring shown at the upper end in the accompanying illustration, ..."

4. Annual ReportRailroads (1873)
"... Barton's Mills, the sounding-line marked 1.510 feet. Keeping tolerably near the shore we have 772 feet as the next Hounding north of Barton's Mill. ..."

5. The Story of the Heavens by Robert Stawell Ball (1885)
"Sounding-line for Space—The Labours of W. Herschel—His Reasonings ... We propose to carry the sounding-line across the vast abyss which separates the group ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1854)
"A piece of rope is then attached by each end to the arms, to which again is joined the sounding line. The ball is then lowered into the water, ..."

7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, William Ripley Nichols, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1854)
"A piece of rope is then attached by each end to the arms) to which again is joined the sounding line. The ball is then lowered into the water, ..."

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