Significados de sounding line em inglês

Earth has no sounding line to fathom the depths of a mother's heart.

The buoy to which the sounding line had been lashed had not yet been recognized.

Jerry, up in the bow, was using the pole as a sounding line, and calling out:

The winch upon which the sounding line was wound was worked by hand on this cruise.

We hope to use this long sounding line in going across from the eastern to the western shore.

Now haul in the sounding line.

It was as if he were no longer being taken south, but was descending the sounding line inside himself.

The operating of the sounding line and of the electric light was therefore entirely independent of that of the dredges.

Kalla has also taken a tough- sounding line over a border dispute with Malaysia in the resource-rich Ambalat waters near East Kalimantan.

The lieutenant wanted two men to keep it out in the current while he used the sounding line and recorded results.

The commander reported that, when the sounding line was drawn up, a large spherical object was seen to be attached to it.

We were speaking just now of the white clay brought up from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean by the sounding line.

But the location sometimes leads to perplexing situations, such as Bertie Ahern speaking to Mac Coille on a distant- sounding line from, er, Ireland.

They had many things in the boat but lost only two billies, two pannikins, a sounding line and Hamilton's hat, knife and pipe.

In fact, nothing delayed immediate departure but the consideration that two miles of sounding line were still to be hauled up from the ocean depths.

These were the same waterways where Captain Denham, aboard the Herald, payedout 14,000 meters of sounding line without finding bottom.