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Plumb
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(a.) Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.
(3):
(adv.) In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.
(4):
(v. t.) 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.
(5):
(v. t.) To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.
(6):
(v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.
(7):
(v. t.) To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Plumb'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/plumb.html. 1828.
