What is a piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line called?
plummet — A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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