Meaning of Sounder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something or someone who makes a sound.
2. A device for making soundings at sea.
3. A group of wild boar.
4. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
5. A person who takes soundings.
6. A young boar.
7. A stethoscope.
   dated, plural, plural-only
8. A fishfinder.
9. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).

Equivalents

Examples

“a telephone with an electronic sounder”

“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.”

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