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Plummet   /plˈəmət/   Listen
noun
Plummet  n.  
1.
A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. "I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded."
2.
A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
3.
Hence, any weight.
4.
A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.





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"Plummet" Quotes from Famous Books



... line is the level of the sea, from which on the right hand a plummet descends, representing a depth of 200 fathoms, or 1,200 feet. The vertical shading shows the section of the land, and the horizontal shading that of the encircling barrier-reef: from the smallness of the scale, the lagoon-channel could ...
— Coral Reefs • Charles Darwin
... a very quiet, self-possessed sort of man, sitting a moment on top of the wall to sound the damp darkness for warnings of the dangers it might conceal. But the plummet of his hearing brought nothing to him save the moaning of wind through invisible trees and the rustling of leaves on swaying branches. A heavy fog drifted and drove before the wind, and though he could ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London
... His round nest is under the eaves, he throws himself out of window and begins to fall, and keeps on fall, fall, for twenty hours together. His head is bullet-shaped, his neck short, his body all thickened up to the shoulders, tailing out to the merest streak of feather. His form is like a plummet—he is not unlike the heavily weighted minnow used in trolling for pike. Before the bend of the firmly elastic rod, the leaded minnow slides out through the air, running true and sinking without splash into the water. It ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... living, when death has entered and removed the best friend, Fate has done her worst; the plummet has sounded the depths of grief, and thereafter nothing can inspire terror. At one fell stroke all petty annoyances and corroding cares are sunk into nothingness. The memory of a great love lives enshrined in undying amber. It affords a ballast ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... a plummet of lead. Shawn! Had anything happened to Shawn? Had this stammering, purple-faced gentleman come to prepare her? Her heart gave a cry of anguish, while her eyes rested with apparent calmness on Sir Felix's ...
— Love of Brothers • Katharine Tynan


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