sounder
Something or someone who makes a soundSomething or someone who makes a sound.
Meaning
9 sensesSomething or someone who makes a sound.
a telephone with an electronic sounder
An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
(dated, plural, plural only)A stethoscope.
Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
A device for making soundings at sea.
a device for making soundings
A person who takes soundings.
A fishfinder.
A group of wild boar.
A young boar.
Origin
From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er. From French sonder. InhFrom Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
From French sonder.
Inherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).
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