Sounding-Lead is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 1484 anagrams from letters in sounding-lead (-addegilnnosu).
Middle English word dating back to 1300-50
Taking the sounding lead with us, we were soon able to find good fishing grounds.
The only activity was the sounding lead which was thrown overboard occasionally.
He in turn sold me to a ship-maker, who worked me over into a sounding lead for a steamer he had built.
The sounding lead is a long slug, something like a 99 window-weight, at the bottom of which is a saucer-shaped hollow.
On the 11th of May, the sounding lead was cast, and bottom was found at 80b fathoms; a sign that they were upon the Codfish Banks.
They call it bank, because, in coming from the deep sea, it is the first place where bottom is found with the sounding lead.
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