sounder

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of sound

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er.
• From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
• From French sonder
• Old English sunor