plumb line

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a piece of thick string with a weight attached to one end, used to find the depth of water or to test whether a wall, etc. is straight

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

plumb lineEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus plumb lineEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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plover plow ploy pluck plucky plug plughole plum plumage plumb plumber plumbing

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plumb line