sounder

Meanings

1. comparative form of sound: more sound

1. Something or someone who makes a sound.
2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
3. A stethoscope.
4. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).

1. A device for making soundings at sea.
2. A person who takes soundings.
3. A fishfinder.

1. A group of wild boar.
2. A young boar.

Etymology

From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).

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