Sounding

Sound·ing

Sounding

a.
  1. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.

Sounding

n.
  1. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
  2. measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained. (Naut.)

Phrases & Compounds
Sounding lead
the plummet at the end of a sounding line.
Sounding line
a line having a plummet at the end, used in making soundings.
Sounding post
a small post in a violin, violoncello, or similar instrument, set under the bridge as a support, for propagating the sounds to the body of the instrument; -- called also sound post.
Sounding rod
a rod used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold.
In soundings
within the eighty-fathom line.