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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pluhm-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈplʌm ɪt |
Definition of plummet
Origin :- late 14c., "ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line," from Old French plomet "graphite, lead; plummet, sounding lead," diminutive of plom "sounding lead" (see plumb (n.)).
- verb fall hard and fast
- And love was the plummet dropped down into the deeps of him where like had never gone.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Oh, is there any plummet to sound the depths of a mother's love?
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- No plummet ever sank so deep as Jamie sank the thoughts of those few months.
- Extract from : « Pirate Gold » by Frederic Jesup Stimson
- Her singles were perfectly round, and as flat at the top as if laid with a plummet.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 » by Various
- This line, with a plummet, is mentioned by Lucilius; and was the sund-gyrd of the Anglo-Saxons.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- The bird had dropped like a plummet, dead before it struck the ground.
- Extract from : « The Fighting Edge » by William MacLeod Raine
- What plummet can sound the depths of a woman's fall who has become a harlot?
- Extract from : « Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners » by B.G. Jefferis
- Dropping like a plummet, he alighted on his hands and knees on the ground.
- Extract from : « The Duke's Motto » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
- Henry saw that he could not escape it, and his heart sank, like a plummet in a pool.
- Extract from : « The Riflemen of the Ohio » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- It dropped like a plummet, but no man saw where it struck the earth.
- Extract from : « The People of the Black Circle » by Robert E. Howard
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