sounder

IPA: sˈaʊndɝ

Something or someone who makes a sound.
An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
(medicine, dated, plural only) A stethoscope.
(nautical) A device for making soundings at sea.
(nautical) A person who takes soundings.
(fishing) A fishfinder.
A group of wild boar.
A young boar.

Examples of "sounder" in Sentences

-- The sounder is the instrument which carries the electro-magnet.
And then, save for the clatter of the "sounder," there was silence.
The receiving instrument is not the noisy "sounder" of the land lines.
R, of course, hears his own sounder, which is making the dots and dashes also.
One pack (called a "sounder") of boars took to hanging out at a playground in Berlin's posh Dahlem district.
For receiving signals I locate in said circuit between the condensing surface and the ground a diaphragm sounder, which is preferably one of my electromotograph telephone receivers.
a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your character, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods.
We always found that the deeper the sets were placed in the ground the sounder were the roots: We tried every experiment with them; and as our gardener was both skilful and industrious, we were usually much more fortunate with our produce than our neighbors.
Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods.