sounding machine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device used to measure water depth beneath a ship, consisting of a winch or windlass that deploys and retrieves a weighed line or wire.
    — My fist went out like an arrow from a released bow, and Tom Spink staggered back, tripped against the corner of the tarpaulin-covered sounding-machine, and sprawled on the deck. He tried to make a fight of it, but I followed him up, giving him no chance to set himself or recover from the surprise of my first onslaught.

词形变化

sounding machines plural
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