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sounding machines

sounding machines is the plural of sounding machine.

Meaning of sounding machine

Noun

sounding machine (plural sounding machines)

  1. A device used to measure water depth beneath a ship, consisting of a winch or windlass that deploys and retrieves a weighed line or wire.
    • My fist went out like an arrow from a released bow, and Tom Spink staggered back, tripped against the corner of the tarpaulin-covered sounding-machine, and sprawled on the deck. He tried to make a fight of it, but I followed him up, giving him no chance to set himself or recover from the surprise...1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLV

Questions about sounding machines

What is sounding machines the plural of?
Sounding machines is the plural of sounding machine.

Words near sounding machines in the dictionary

  1. sounding board
  2. sounding boards
  3. sounding line
  4. sounding lines
  5. sounding machine
  6. sounding machines
  7. sounding off
  8. sounding out
  9. sounding rocket
  10. sounding rockets
  11. sounding rod

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