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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Evan’s suggestion does seem the most plausible of the senses offered by the OED. Definition n2 is below. n1 is to do with wild swine, while n3 is to do with sounding depths of water.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Tom<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>1. One who makes or utters a sound or sounds; one who causes something, esp. an instrument, to sound.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>1591 R. Percyvall <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Bibliotheca Hispanica</a></i> Dict. at <i>Tañedor</i>, A plaier or sounder of any instrument, <i>cantor</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1648 H. Hexham <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Groot Woorden-boeck</a></i> <i>Een Luyder</i>, a Ringer, a Sounder.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1809 ‘D. Knickerbocker’ <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Hist. N.Y.</a></i> II. vi. iii. 100 The illustrious sun..did dart one of his most potent beams..upon the refulgent nose of this sounder of brass.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1831 Scott <i>Count Robert</i> ii, in <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Tales of my Landlord</a></i> 4th Ser. II. 14 In the front..stood the sounder of the sacred trumpet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1859 Dickens <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Tale of Two Cities</a></i> ii. i. 34 The sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>1591—1859<a href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false">(Hide quotations)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <b>2.</b> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>a. A telegraphic device which enables the communications or signals to be read by sound.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>1860 G. B. Prescott <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Electr. Telegr.</a></i> 91 Since the adoption of the method of reading by sound, another apparatus has taken the place of the register, or recording apparatus, called the <i>sounder</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1872 F. L. Pope <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Telegraph</a></i> iv. 32 The Sounder consists simply of the electro-magnet, armature and lever fixed upon a base.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Telegraphy</a></i> 246 The Sounder, on account of the extreme simplicity of its mechanism, is less liable to faults than any of the other forms of instruments which are employed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>attrib.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1875 E. H. Knight <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Pract. Dict. Mech.</a></i> 2247/2 <i>Sounder-magnet</i>, the magnet which operates the sounder in the receiving apparatus.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>1860—1876<a href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false">(Hide quotations)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>b. A telegraphist who operates or has experience with this.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>1887 <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Daily News</a></i> 2 May 7/3 Telegraphist (sounder) desires engagement.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>1887—1887<a href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false">(Hide quotations)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>3. A device or instrument which gives a signal, etc., by sounding; also, the signal so given.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>a</i>1884 E. H. Knight <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Pract. Dict. Mech.</a></i> Suppl. 832/1 <i>Sounder</i>, an alarm or call, made by closing an electric circuit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1891 <i><a href="javascript:void(0)">Pall Mall Gaz.</a></i> 1 June 7/1 An electric sounder, too, is so arranged that it commences to ring if everything is correct, directly the gun is loaded and in the firing position.<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Evan Koblentz<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2016 6:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> JD Fleming <jfleming@sfu.ca>; members <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Gleick "sounder"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> One is reported as saying: "If I want to send a message, I use a sounder, or employ a boy to take it" (p.189). My question is: What, in this context, is or was a "sounder"<br><br>Telegraph.<br><br><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_sounder">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_sounder</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>