Sounding Line

Definition: Sounding Line

Sounding Line

Noun

1. (nautical) plumb line for determining depth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Sounding Line

Depth

Soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.

Crosswords: Sounding Line

Periodicals

• New England Sounding Line (reference)

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Trolley rig - Hauling slack from sounding line prior to sounding Off of ISIS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Hauling in sounding line of trolley rig using hand crank on boat deck Off of ISIS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

USS VINCENNES in pack ice - Captain Charles Wilkes commanding On the Antarctic shelf, Wilkes sounded with copper wire in 400 fathoms First use of wire instead of hemp sounding line Copper too ductile and would break - gave up on idea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 39. Massey sounder, a propeller driven sounding device first developed in 1802 by Edward Massey. Many improvements were made to this device through the Nineteenth Century. The instrument in the image was created by Thomas Walke r in 1874. It consists of a propeller driven registering device which is fixed to a sounding line and weighted by ballast. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 55. Burt's nipper, invented by Peter Burt, a British ship builder, in 1818. It was used to keep the sounding line vertical in spite of the motion of the ship. It was used by the British Admiralty along with a device of the same type designed by Massey. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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Bulgarian 

лот (lead, plumb line, plummet). (various references)

French

sonde (sonde, sound), perche de sondage (sounding rod). (various references)

German

lot (perpendicular, Plumb, plumb line, plumbline, plummet, plump, solder). (various references)

Greek 

βολίδα (lead, plummet). (various references)

Hungarian

mélységmérő (depth gauge, depth recorder), fenékmérő. (various references)

Manx

rimlagh sunteil. (various references)

Pig Latin

oundingsay inelay

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