sounding-pole

As Gadabout slowly moved along, she occasionally got out of the channel into the shallows, in spite of chart and sounding-pole; and more than once she struck bottom.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

River, feeling her way cautiously with a sounding-pole, like some fat old lady with a walking-stick.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

I sheered her well inshore -- the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding-pole informed me.

Heart of Darkness 1902

I sheered her well inshore -- the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding-pole informed me.

Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

I sheered her well inshore -- the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding-pole informed me.

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1890

I sheered her well inshore -- the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding-pole informed me.

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1890

I forded it first, with the help of a sounding-pole, and then taking the children on my back, first the two little ones, and then the others, one at a time, and, lastly, my wife, I succeeded in getting them safely across.

An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1881. With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Introductory Notes by George Sturge, S. Morley, Esq., M. P., Wendell Phillips, and John G. Whittier. Edited by John Lobb, F.R.G.S. Revised and Enlarged. 1881

I forded it first, with the help of a sounding-pole, and then taking the children on my back, first the two little ones, and then the others, one at a time, and, lastly, my wife, I succeeded in getting them safely across.

Uncle Tom's Story of His Life. An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876. With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and an Introductory Note by George Sturge, and S. Morley, Esq., M. P. 1876

I looked over, and there was the gallant sounding-boat booming away, the unprincipled Tom presiding at the tiller, and my chief sitting by him with the sounding-pole which I had been sent on a fool's errand to fetch.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872

'Now just for that, you can go and get the sounding-pole yourself.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872