What is "sounders"

Usage examples of "sounders".

It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.

What with sounders and gorgeaunts and hog-steers, you never knew where you were.

Space reefs and sounders, stuff that can swallow a ship up quick as a wink.

Neither did the high-powered sounders mounted on the Dragons pick up any noises that didn't seem native to the swamp.

They had not stuffed his ears, either, and after they had carried him out of what was a private garage into a house which opened off a street that was probably residential and lined with high buildings—the traffic had been light and had boomed and echoed as it would from big structures—Monk had heard the telegraph sounders, the tickers, the telephones and the tiny whistling of radios receiving code.

Our little operation has already set off three sounders, all duly reported ahead of time and properly recorded and so on.