Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for taking deep-sea soundings. See
deep-sea .
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Examples
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I had just come up from below and was standing beside the sounding-machine, not half a dozen feet from Henry at the wheel.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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My fist went out like an arrow from a released bow, and Tom Spink staggered back, tripped against the corner of the tarpaulin-covered sounding-machine, and sprawled on the deck.
CHAPTER XLV 2010
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On the port side, on the forward part of the after-deck, a Downton pump is fitted, which can either be worked by hand or by a small motor, which also serves to drive the sounding-machine, and is set up on the after-deck.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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At first this was done with the motor and sounding-machine, but this took too long, and we afterwards used nothing but a light hand-winch.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Bage, under Davis's direction, took temperatures and collected water samples at fifty, seventy-five, one hundred, two hundred and three hundred fathoms, using the Lucas sounding-machine on the fo'c'sle.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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My fist went out like an arrow from a released bow, and Tom Spink staggered back, tripped against the corner of the tarpaulin-covered sounding-machine, and sprawled on the deck.
Chapter 45 1914
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I had just come up from below and was standing beside the sounding-machine, not half a dozen feet from Henry at the wheel.
Chapter 47 1914
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At first this was done with the motor and sounding-machine, but this took too long, and we afterwards used nothing but a light hand-winch.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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On the port side, on the forward part of the after-deck, a Downton pump is fitted, which can either be worked by hand or by a small motor, which also serves to drive the sounding-machine, and is set up on the after-deck.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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On the port side, on the forward part of the after-deck, a Downton pump is fitted, which can either be worked by hand or by a small motor, which also serves to drive the sounding-machine, and is set up on the after-deck.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
ruzuzu commented on the word sounding-machine
See sounder.
April 27, 2011