Definitions for sounding-line

sounding-line sounding line

Sounding-Line 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 766 anagrams from letters in sounding-line (-degiilnnnosu).

Definitions for sounding-line

noun

  1. a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.

Origin of sounding-line

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50

Examples for sounding-line

Earth has no sounding line to fathom the depths of a mother's heart.

Close to the edge, the sounding line gave a depth of 10 fathoms (60 feet).

Wednesday, August 26, the sounding line forewarned the reefs of Sable Island.

The lieutenant wanted two men to keep it out in the current while he used the sounding line and recorded results.

They were going and coming with the sounding line sometimes finding 10 fathoms, at others 100 fathoms.

The buoy to which the sounding line had been lashed had not yet been recognized.

They had many things in the boat but lost only two billies, two pannikins, a sounding line and Hamilton's hat, knife and pipe.

On a trial trip we had found a depth of 130 feet not far from the shore, so we made ready a sounding line 490 feet long.

The operating of the sounding line and of the electric light was therefore entirely independent of that of the dredges.

But these charming, though fallacious, ideas were rudely overthrown by the sounding line and the drag-net.

Word Value for sounding-line
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

Similar words for sounding-line
Word of the day