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A sailor who takes soundings with a hand leadline, measuring the depth of water.
Similar to chinny-reck-on etc, but accompanied by rubbing of chin and a noise of disagreement along the lines of "neigh", but sounding more like "naiii".
A heavy lead sinker that is attached to a line, used in sounding depth. Often refered to as a "hand leadline".
Measuring the depth of the water using a sonar device.
Measuring the depth of the water. Traditionally done by swinging the lead, now commonly by using a hull mounted echo sounder.
pleasant-sounding music
1. Measuring the depth of water beneath a ship using a lead-weighted sounding line. 2. To avoid work or only take easy jobs.
Small platforms built into the sides of a ship to assist in depth sounding.
Insult implying you perform fellatio, which must in turn therefore imply a negative attitude towards performing oral sex! Also a less aggressive statement than 'fuck you' though sounding very similar.
A Gang known as the Bloods, say PRAAAAAP! sounding like a machine gun. It is used when 2 Bloods meet and greet.
Nice sounding word but contributor says he has no idea how or why it was used. Could be as old as the 15th century and may be associated with the North of England. If you have any ideas it would solve a dilema for us. We look forward to your help. Of course it could just be another form of 'dawdled' which would be a bit silly, so we await your comment with interest.
Sounding is Black−American slang for flirting
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Sounding alone.
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See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
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A sounding-board.
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A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
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Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.
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measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
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Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
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Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.
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Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.
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The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
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Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
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A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
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Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
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A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
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Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
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The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
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To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
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Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous.
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Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
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