| 单词 | sounding lead |
| 例句 | A sounding lead, used to measure the sea's depth, was also found. Bones from shipwreck may shed light on ancient Greeks' travel habits 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z While he inquired after my health in hypocritically honeyed accents, he constantly kept his two great yellow lion-eyes fixed upon me, and plunged his look into my soul like a sounding lead. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z And it happened that one of those who were throwing in the sounding lead, by chance and without any certain knowledge, put his hand to his mouth and found the water sweet. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II 2011-04-05T02:00:10.813Z Taking the sounding lead with us, we were soon able to find good fishing grounds. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document The sounding lead is a long slug, something like a 99 window-weight, at the bottom of which is a saucer-shaped hollow. The Harbor of Doubt Both the sounding leads and the wire were made especially for the expedition, and so far as I know they were the lightest, for their capacity, that have ever been used. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club In a circle they went around it, barely thirty feet from the broken mast, Jack heaving the sounding lead. The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep 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. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The apparatus automatically registers the number of meters of wire that is paid out, and as soon as the sounding lead touches bottom, it at once stops of itself. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 For greater security, one should keep the sounding lead in hand. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 The same day we explored the entrance to the river, where large vessels can approach; but there are inside some reefs, to avoid which one must advance with sounding lead in hand. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 |
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