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Plumb 1Definition: A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.
Plumb 2Definition: Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb. Plumb 3Definition: In a plumb direction; perpendicularly. Plumb 4Definition: To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall. Plumb 5Definition: To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test. Plumb 6Definition: To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe. Plumb 7Definition: To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing. plumb 8Definition: the metal bob of a plumb line plumb 9Definition: adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical plumb 10Definition: examine thoroughly and in great depth plumb 11Definition: measure the depth of something plumb 12Definition: weight with lead plumb 13Definition: exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb" plumb 14Definition: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I''m plumb (or plum) tuckered out" plumb 15Definition: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" plumb 16Definition: conforming to the direction of a plumb line
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