sounding lead

1. 1.

   a metal bob at the end of a sounding line

   Broaderbob

   Part oflead line

Questions about sounding lead

What does sounding lead mean?

sounding lead means "a metal bob at the end of a sounding line".

Is sounding lead a common word?

sounding lead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.