Sounding Line Definition

noun
A line marked at intervals of fathoms and weighted at one end, used to determine the depth of water.
American Heritage

Lead line.

Webster's New World
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Sounding Line Sentence Examples

  • At any point a sounding line would hang in the line of the radius of curvature of the water surface.

  • I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  • As I was desirous to recover the long lost bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, early in '46, with compass and chain and sounding line.

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