单词 | sounding-line |
释义 | sounding-linen. Nautical. 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 n.In Phillips, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > sounding-line or -rod sounding-line1336 plumbc1425 lead-line1485 handline1535 bolye1552 fathom line1598 plumb line1648 sounda1653 hand lead1669 plumbing line1671 plumbing rope1693 sounder1811 sea-line1828 1336 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 19/31 m. 4 In .j. petra cordis de canabo..pro vno soundynglyne inde faciendo. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 44 Fetch the Sounding line, this is bigger than the Dipsie line. 1777 W. Robertson 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. 1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean Introd. (1849) 6 In many places no length of sounding line has yet been able to reach the bottom. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xiii. §567 His sounding-line was an iron wire more than eleven miles in length. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1336 |
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