a bank or reef, an area of shallow water dangerous to navigation Sounding: the of operation of determioning the depth of the sea, and the quality of the ground, by means of a lead and line, sunk from the ship to the bottom, where some of the sediment or sand adheres to the tallow in the hollow base of the lead
(1) (noun) A detached area of any material except rock or coral The DEPTHS over it are a danger to surface navigation Similar continental or insular shelf features of greater DEPTHS are usually termed BANKS (2) (verb) To become shallow gradually (3) To cause to become shallow (4) To proceed from a greater to a lesser DEPTH of water
A sandbank or sandbar that makes the water shallow; specifically : an elevation which is not rocky and on which there is a depth of water of six fathoms (11 meters) or less