sounder

1. comparativecomparative form of sound: more sound

   The Northern Division Traffic Manager has said that there is no present intention of terminating the service, but the hopes previously entertained of expanding it cannot be entertained until it is operating on a sounder economic basis.

   1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 199

plural sounders

1. Something or someone who makes a sound.

   a telephone with an electronic sounder

2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
3. datedpluralplural onlymedicineA stethoscope.
4. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).

   Synonyms: sting

plural sounders

1. nauticalA device for making soundings at sea.
2. nauticalA person who takes soundings.
3. fishingA fishfinder.

plural sounders

1. A group of wild boar.

   Each “sounder," or group , of wild swine will be joined by a dominant boar when there are females in estrus.

   2019, Alice Percy, Happy Pigs Taste Better: A Complete Guide to Organic and Humane Pasture-Based Pork Production, Chelsea Green Publisher, page 17

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   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.

   1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

   Members of a sounder share a home range, and often move around their home range in a group (feral pigs, Gabor et al.,1999).

   2008, Richard B. D'Eath and Simon P. Turner, edited by Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde, The Welfare of Pigs, Springer Netherlands, page 21

2. A young boar.