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Значения термина sounding line на английском

(Nautical) plumb line for determining depth.

Использование термина sounding line на английском
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Earth has no sounding line to fathom the depths of a mother's heart.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
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The buoy to which the sounding line had been lashed had not yet been recognized.
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
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Jerry, up in the bow, was using the pole as a sounding line, and calling out:
The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; Or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists
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The winch upon which the sounding line was wound was worked by hand on this cruise.
The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
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We hope to use this long sounding line in going across from the eastern to the western shore.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
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Now haul in the sounding line.
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
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It was as if he were no longer being taken south, but was descending the sounding line inside himself.
Depths
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The operating of the sounding line and of the electric light was therefore entirely independent of that of the dredges.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
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Kalla has also taken a tough- sounding line over a border dispute with Malaysia in the resource-rich Ambalat waters near East Kalimantan.
Reuters
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The lieutenant wanted two men to keep it out in the current while he used the sounding line and recorded results.
Overland: A Novel
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The commander reported that, when the sounding line was drawn up, a large spherical object was seen to be attached to it.
Last and First Men
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We were speaking just now of the white clay brought up from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean by the sounding line.
Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
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But the location sometimes leads to perplexing situations, such as Bertie Ahern speaking to Mac Coille on a distant- sounding line from, er, Ireland.
The Irish Times
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They had many things in the boat but lost only two billies, two pannikins, a sounding line and Hamilton's hat, knife and pipe.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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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.
All Around the Moon
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These were the same waterways where Captain Denham, aboard the Herald, payedout 14,000 meters of sounding line without finding bottom.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...