sounding lead
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A sounding lead, used to measure the sea's depth, was also found.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2016
Some SO miles from the coast of Japan, the Nipponese man-of-war Manchu dropped its sounding lead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her superstructure swept away, she had gone down like a sounding lead in deep water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waist-held in the chains and soused in the fifty-foot-high spray, Joe Byng eyed his sounding lead that swung like a pendulum below him, and named it sacrilege.
From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot
The apparatus automatically registers the number of meters of wire that is paid out, and as soon as the sounding lead touches bottom, it at once stops of itself.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
