Usually means: Rope measuring depth of water.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. sounding line: Merriam-Webster
  2. sounding line: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sounding line: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sounding line: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sounding line: Vocabulary.com
  6. sounding-line, sounding line: Wordnik
  7. sounding line: Wiktionary
  8. sounding line: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. sounding line: Dictionary.com
  10. Sounding line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. sounding line: Rhymezone
  12. sounding line: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sounding line: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. sounding line: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sounding line: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sounding line: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sounding line)

noun:  (nautical) A weighted line with distances marked off at regular intervals, used to measure the depth of water under a boat.

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