sounding machine

American  

noun

Navigation.

1. any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.

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Etymology

Origin of sounding machine

First recorded in 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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sounding machine

The depth recorded is that given by Massey's patent sounding machine.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

His mariner's compass and sounding machine have done good service to seamen.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes

These are carried out by Captain Sparrow and Mr. Wright the chief Congo pilot with the aid of a most ingenious sounding machine.

From A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman

The sounding machine was kept running with rather dramatic results; depths jumping from five to thirty fathoms in the ship's length, and back again to the original figure in the same distance.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson

See that log lines, sounding machine, etc., are in order for instant use.

From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

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