soundage

English

Etymology

From sound +‎ -age.

Noun

soundage (countable and uncountable, plural soundages)

1. (obsolete) The production of a sound.
   • 1855, David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, page 146:

     Att the soundage of an alarum , euery one shall repaire to theire coullers or place appointed them .

   • 2014, Miya Lusions, We Are of Eternal Love: No Maki Ish Sheyetawah, page 179:

     Then we heard the soundage of a whistle in the wind .

2. (archaeology) An excavated trench or pit.
   • 1971, Afghanistan - Volume 24, page 91:

     The establishment of a stratigraphic continium for Deh Morasi Ghundai and Said Qala Tepe will have to wait until the analysis of the soundage is completed.

   • 1994, Vibha Tripathi, Ajeet K. Srivastava, The Indus Terracottas, page 51:

     The first phase is known only from a very small soundage on the eastern side of a large building of the third phase .

   • 2006, Devi Prasad Tewari, Excavations at Pirvitanisarif-Trilokpur, page 35:

     It is a huge soundage, which was purposely dug for robbing the brick structure .

3. The determination of the depth and nature of materials beneath the surface.
   • 1876, “Facts from Various Sources”, in Report of the Department of Agriculture, volume 12, page 455:

     At the late session of the legislative body an appropriation was made for soundage and survey .

   • 1961, B. Kujundžić, Testing Mechanical Features of Rocks, page 14:

     Dynamically by measuring velocities of elastic longitudinal waves dispersing through the rocky mass between the soundage borings .

   • 1962, Miodrag Vukćević, “The Influence of High Water and river bed Instability on the Determination of the balance of Waters”, in OTS, page 150:

     On March 10, 1955, soundage and hydrometric measurements were performed at a water stage of 380-384 cm .

4. (medicine) The act of sounding; auscultation
   • 1921, William MacLennan, A Manual of Diseases of the Stomach, page 90:

     Soundage, inflation and gastric diaphany may give information as valuable as that obtained by radiography.

   • 1949, American Journal of Tropical Medicine - Volume 29, Part 2, page 883:

     Gastro-duodenal soundage revealed a normally functioning gall bladder .

   • 2013, Julius Bauer, Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases, page 450:

     Ureteral soundage and retrograde pyelography may detect a calculus , papilloma or carcinoma in the ureter or abnormal appearance of the renal pelvis and kidney .

5. (medicine) The therapeutic application of sound waves.
   • 1888, G. Apostoli, “On the Treatment of Fibroid Tumours of the Uterus by Delectricity”, in The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, page 209:

     It is simple; for it is ordinarily nothing more than a skillful, uterine, therapeutical soundage.

   • 1937, International Surveys of Recent Advances in Obstetrics-gynecology, page 30:

     The good results which may be obtained from simple soundage of the uterus in the treatment of sterility are not very well known .

6. Dues paid for soundings.