sounding line
sounding lead
lead line

Sounding line used to measure the depth of the water and to pick up samples from the bottom.

He glanced again at the sounding lines: Nansen was over two and a half miles deep.

Water depths have traditionally been measured this way using a weighted sounding line.

"You there," he said to the sailor in the bow who held another sounding line, "keep busy with that lead.

Sounding lines were widely used in navigation until the development of echo sounding.

The early explorers, whose sounding lines were relatively short, thought the oceans were bottomless.

Long sounding lines were sunk in the side walls, but after fifteen yards they were again stopped by the thick wall.

We need to throw some sounding lines."

After every couple of strokes, they paused while a man in the bow heaved out the lead-weighted sounding line.

Historically the sounding line was used.

Now haul in the sounding line.

Sounding line measurements showed that the steamer sat with only the port side of its stern resting on the reef.

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

The commander reported that, when the sounding line was drawn up, a large spherical object was seen to be attached to it.

Despite the fog, they pressed ahead at full speed, without using the sounding line to ensure they were not approaching the shore.

The loo-metre and 50-metre sounding lines can take us into the entrance of the bay.' '

The crew muttering among themselves, aware that we had indeed managed to "touch" bottom here with our deep sea sounding line!!!

The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom.

Manual sounding is undertaken with a sounding line- a rope with a weight on the end.

The refrain of the song repeats nonsensical sounding lines:

Sounding line, an instrument used in navigation to measure water depth (the plummet, or weight, is usually composed of lead)

The chief aim was to achieve strong and sounding lines, magnificent epithets, and powerful declamation.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.

Water near the coast and not too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line was referred to as in soundings or on soundings.

Sounding was originally done by hand with sounding poles or a weighted sounding line when measuring greater depths.

He lowered it over the side, using it as a sounding lead.

Charts should indicate the type of bottom, and a sounding lead may be used to collect a sample from the bottom for analysis.

The Mayflower had two sounding leads for ascertaining depth: one with 600 feet of line, the other with 120.

By 500 BC they had the sounding lead (Herodotus 2.5).

But we're no different from the ancient mariners who smeared wax on their sounding lead to check out the composition of the ocean bottom."

A deep-sea lead, the heaviest of sounding leads, was used in water exceeding 100 fathoms in depth.

He seeks solace through secretly observing or following people, and at night overcomes fear by cradling his most precious possession, his sounding lead.

The Nautilus then rested on the bed of ice, which was not one yard thick, and which the sounding leads had perforated in a thousand places.

On 27 I wrote: "No astronomical reckoning, no R.D.F." no sounding lead and thick fog, a fine navigation."

"Sir, at this moment we have 3,508 fathoms of line out, and the ball which draws the sounding lead has not yet touched the bottom; for if so, it would have come up of itself."

With the permission of the Oman Government a number of artefacts were recovered from one of the wreck sites; including stone cannon balls of varying sizes, lead covered iron shot and sounding leads.

Challenger was equipped to measure much of this, being loaded with specimen jars, chemical apparatus, trawls and dredges, thermometers and water sampling bottles, sounding leads and devices to collect sediment from the sea bed.

He threw his head up and I had my hand on the lead line.

Lead lining is used to hold together pieces of glass.

He hauled on the lead line to bring the first donkey from the water.

"I'm not a mare to be pulled about on a lead line."

With a jerk on the mule's lead line, she started down the other side of the hill.

At night, the lights are a form of leading line that can be used for safe navigation.

She turned from him, jerking at the mule's lead line.

In more remote areas, the only available depth information has been collected with lead lines.

Picking up the lead lines for the animals, she pulled them off the tracks.

You must not consider the drawing but only the leading lines of the design."

He cut all the lead lines, then mounted one, bareback.

All we have to do is open the stall and grab his lead line."

Children held their hands out to the dogs to sniff, getting tangled in the lead lines.

She did start lipping at the knots in the lead lines, but without much real interest.

He also sang while playing the lead line on the accordion, another innovation.

There was method in his leading line of suspicions.

That should be the leading line in our implementation of policies in this area.

Ned leaned forward, like a hound who knew he was about to be released from his lead line.

The mule fought William for a moment, then he yielded to the tug on his lead line.

A fishing line with a stone attached served as our lead line.

Maybe we just need to rewrite the lead lines."

He reached a hand toward the lead line someone had found for Reese, so he could more easily hold the horse.

In 1950 the church's flat roofs had to be repaired once more after the lead lining was stolen.

With no time to waste, he turned back to Tom, just starting away from securing the lead lines to his big draft horses.

The Lead line of scooters has changed over time and is still widely ridden worldwide.