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

Example Sentences

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

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

We soon learnt to handle both vessel and sounding machine in such a way as to entail the least possible strain on the wire.

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

See that the patent log and sounding machine are in good order.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

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 Mawson, Douglas, Sir

Navigational sounding machine, 272 Newton, 195, 202 Nichol, John, Professor of English Language and Literature, 5 Nichol, John Pringle, Professor of Astronomy, 5, 20, 61, 63   Oersted, 61 Oscillations, electrical, 181 et seq.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew