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snow probe Arctic 
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- 1946 The main purpose of the snow sounder was to test the depth and compactness of snow with a view to the construction of a snow-hut . . . The implement was a straight, slender rod of antler roughly three feet long, usually shod at the bottom with a peg of bone or musk-ox horn.
- 1946 The snow probe, a rigid but slender rod of brass about three feet long with a terminal knob of ivory used to test the snow, was carried in one of the gun bags.
- 1946 The main purpose of the snow sounder was to test the depth and compactness of snow with a view to the construction of a snow-hut . . . The implement was a straight, slender rod of antler roughly three feet long, usually shod at the bottom with a peg of bone or musk-ox horn.