Synonyms:
plumb_bob, plumb, plummet
Meaning: the metal bob of a plumb line
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
plummet, plump
Meaning: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
Usage examples
Here nature had done her work geometrically, with square and compass and plummet. Everywhere else her art consists alone in throwing down huge masses together in disorder.
These depths, constantly bridged over by a structure firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss.