sounding lead

[ leed ]

/ lid /

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Words nearby sounding lead

sound head, sound hole, sounding, sounding balloon, sounding board, sounding lead, sounding line, sounding machine, sounding rocket, sound law, soundless

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How to use sounding lead in a sentence

Nevertheless Monsieur de Biancourt was always on his guard, and often sent the boat on ahead with the sounding-lead.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
On the 11th of May, the sounding lead was cast, and bottom was found at 80b fathoms; a sign that they were upon the Codfish Banks.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
He in turn sold me to a ship-maker, who worked me over into a sounding lead for a steamer he had built.
In Camp With A Tin Soldier|John Kendrick Bangs
Beyond this depth the sounding-lead rests, not upon the wall-like face of the reef, but on the ordinary shelving sea-bottom.
Autobiography and Selected Essays|Thomas Henry Huxley

Yes, Tom, a sounding-lead with a great bullet, which they left at the bottom when they pulled the line in again.
The Golden Magnet|George Manville Fenn

British Dictionary definitions for sounding lead

sounding lead

/ (lɛd) /

noun

a lead weight, usually conical and having a depression in the base for a dab of grease so that, when dropped to the bottom on a sounding line, a sample of sand, gravel, etc, can be retrieved

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