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单词 sounder
释义

sounder1

/ˈsaʊndə /
noun
A herd of wild swine: he spied a sounder of pigs trotting through the garden...
  • If no measures are put in place to condemn them, a sounder of bush-pigs can condemn a whole community to starvation.
  • These things happened when the jungle-grass was tall; and the villagers told me that a sounder of pig had gone into the Arti-goth patch.
  • State officials have settled on trapping as the best way to capture an entire sounder of swine.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French sundre, sonre, of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

sounder2

/ˈsaʊndə /
noun
A device used to ascertain the depth of a body of water: multi-beam echo sounders the depth sounder tells him how deep his traps are
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