sounder
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2ADJ.
electronic
PREP.
with
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noun
Something or someone who makes a sound.
a telephone with an electronic sounder
An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
noun
A device for making soundings at sea.
A person who takes soundings.
A fishfinder.
noun
A group of wild boar.
It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.
A young boar.
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2a telephone with an electronic sounder
WiktionaryIt was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes
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