SOUNDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sounder mean? 

• SOUNDER (noun)
  The noun SOUNDER has 1 sense:

1. a device for making soundings

  Familiarity information: SOUNDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUNDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device for making soundings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sounder" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

sound (measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line)

 Context examples 

I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remembered to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just day-light.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)