sounding

The action of the verb to sound.

And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]

In the course of his soundings, Sir Herbert Walker had heard favourable reports of O.V.S. Bulleid, currently Principal Assistant to Gresley on the LNER.

Emitting a sound.

The sounding bell woke me up.

Sonorous.

sounding words

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

A test made with a probe or sonde.

Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]

Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]

A measured depth of water.

The sailor took a sounding every five minutes

Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.

We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England

The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).