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Definition of Sounding lead
1. Noun. A metal bob at the end of a sounding line.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sounding Lead
Literary usage of Sounding lead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Depths of the Sea: An Account of the General Results of the Dredging by Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys (1873)
"The ordinary Sounding-lead for moderate Depths. — Liable to Error when employed
in Deep Water. — Early Deep Soundings unreliable. ..."
2. The Depths of the Sea: An Account of the General Results of the Dredging by Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys (1873)
"The ordinary Sounding-lead for moderate Depths.-—Liable to Error when employed
in Deep Water. — Early Deep Soundings unreliable. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1894)
"Mr. Torr has sounding-lead and log ; and ship's boats. A valuable appendix
describes the different types of ships under their early nomenclature, ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"Arminen [ar-mê'-nen], German students' political association, III. 478, 1 b.
Arming of the sounding lead, II. 71, 1 c. Arminian controversy, XIV. 254, 2 c. ..."
5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"The sounding lead • is placed on a rod /, having pivoted or easily detachable
... The line which holds the sounding-lead. ..."
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