comparative 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.
Something or someone who makes a sound.
a telephone with an electronic sounder
A device for making soundings at sea.
A group of wild boar.
From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
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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.