| 释义 |
sounder1 /ˈsaʊndə /nounA herd of wild swine: he spied a sounder of pigs trotting through the garden...- If no measures are put in place to condemn them, a sounder of bush-pigs can condemn a whole community to starvation.
- These things happened when the jungle-grass was tall; and the villagers told me that a sounder of pig had gone into the Arti-goth patch.
- State officials have settled on trapping as the best way to capture an entire sounder of swine.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French sundre, sonre, of Germanic origin. Rhymes bounder, compounder, expounder, flounder, founder, grounder, impounder, pounder, propounder, rounder sounder2 /ˈsaʊndə /nounA device used to ascertain the depth of a body of water: multi-beam echo sounders the depth sounder tells him how deep his traps are |