单词 | sounding-line |
释义 | sounding-line Naut. [sounding vbl. n.2] A line used in sounding the depth of water; also, line or other material forming this. In early use distinguished from the deep sea line: see deep sea.
1336Acc. Exch. K.R. 19/31 m. 4, In .j. petra cordis de canabo..pro vno soundynglyne inde faciendo. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 44 Fetch the Sounding line, this is bigger than the Dipsie line. [Hence in Phillips, etc.]1777Robertson Hist. Amer. ii. (1783) I. 104 As his course lay through seas which had not formerly been visited, the sounding-line, or instruments for observation, were continually in his hands. 1845Gosse Ocean Introd. (1849) 6 In many places no length of sounding line has yet been able to reach the bottom. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. (Low) xiii. §567 His sounding-line was an iron wire more than eleven miles in length. |

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