plummet
plummet is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
- 2.Hence, any weight.
- 3.A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abysmal
- and
- angle
- angles
- ankle
- azimuth
- bathometer
- bathymetry
- benthal
- beyond
- bolt
- bottomless
- cast
- circle
- cliff
- cock
- concavity
- crater
- deep
- deepen
- deepness
- depression
- depth
- dig
- draught
- earth
- elevation
- end
- endwise
- erect
- erection
- erectness
- excavate
- fathom
- fathomless
- gulf
- head
- heave
- hell
- hollow
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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