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Plumb   /pləm/   Listen
Plumb

noun
1.
The metal bob of a plumb line.  Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet.
verb
(past & past part. plumbed; pres. part. plumbing)
1.
Measure the depth of something.
2.
Weight with lead.
3.
Examine thoroughly and in great depth.
4.
Adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical.
adjective
1.
Exactly vertical.
adverb
1.
Completely; used as intensifiers.  Synonyms: clean, plum.  "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
2.
Conforming to the direction of a plumb line.
3.
Exactly.  Synonym: plum.



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"Plumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... a candy sucker from a baby. 'Curly' let go of that 'six' like he was plumb tired of it, and the kid welted him over the ear just oncet. Then he turned on the room; and right there my heart went out to him. He took in the line up at a sweep ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... reason, think of wives And children ere they risk their lives. Over the balustrade has bounced A mere instinctive dog, and pounced Plumb on the prize. ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... other strongholds, his evil fortune would have it that he should be killed while attempting to measure certain heights at a difficult point; for when he had put his head out beyond the wall in order to let a plumb-line down, a priest who was with the enemy (who feared the genius of Cecca more than the might of the whole camp) discharged a catapult at him and fixed a great dart in his head, insomuch that the poor fellow died on the spot. The fate and the loss of Cecca caused great grief ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 3 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna • Giorgio Vasari
... upon four parts, the mountain bare Seemed fashioned with the plumb, by builder's skill Nor upon any side was path or stair, Which furnished man the means to climb the hill. The castle seemed the very nest and lair Of animal, supplied with plume and quill. And here the damsel knows 'tis time to slay The wily dwarf, and take ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... empires, till, O, like the swirl of dust Around their marching legions, that dim cloud Of doubt closed round him. Was there any man So sure of heart and brain as to record The simple truth of things himself had seen? Then who could plumb that night? The work broke off! He knew that he was wrong. I knew it, too! Once more that stately structure of his dreams Melted like mist. His eagles perished like clouds. Death wound a thin horn through the centuries. The grave resumed his forlorn emperors. ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes


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