Plummet is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLUMMET in dictionary:

VERB:
• to drop straight down
• fall or drop straight down at high speed
• decrease rapidly in value or amount
• plunge downward
• drop sharply
NOUN:
• a steep and rapid fall or drop
• a plumb or plumb line.
• A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
• A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
• Hence, any weight.
• A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
• the metal bob of a plumb line
• weight on a plumb line or fishing line

Words related to PLUMMET

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Words that contain PLUMMET

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How to use PLUMMET in a sentence

• And the reason why the plummet tends much more strongly towards the earth than towards the hill, is only that the earth is larger than the hill.
• The plummet and anchor-chamber sink, while the spherical mine proper is kept on the surface for the moment by means of a buoyant air-chamber within.
• On the plummet touching bottom, the tension in the cable between it and the anchor-chamber is lessened, and the windlass mentioned stops.
• The things were a knife, a piece of chalk, two white pebble stones, and a plummet.
• She hurried into her clothes and came down, to find him stamping in to breakfast, and with the first glance at him her hope fell like a plummet.
• Like a whirlwind he sped down the hillside, dropped over the edge of the cliff like a plummet and shot nearly a hundred feet out over the glassy surface of the lake.
• The well of human needs and desires is so deep that, without these aids, we have not much to draw with, no plummet wherewith to sound its dark and hidden depths.
• For who hath despised little days? and they shall rejoice, and shall see the tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel.
• At noon the next day he stopped to sleep at another town and to buy a lamp, materials for making fire, ropes and a plummet of bronze sufficiently heavy to anchor his boat.
• The raven folded his wings and dropped like a plummet, with a strange rushing sound.
• CHAPTER 23 Now in Vergilius and in many of that time the human heart had dropped its plummet into new depths of feeling, the human mind had made a reach for nobler principles.
• Upon a number of sarcophagi, still extant, we find carved the square, the compasses, the cube, the plummet, the circle, and always the level.
• Into it, dropping through it like a plummet through space, came the report of a rifle.
• The plummet used is made of steel, properly balanced and polished, in shape something like a pineapple, and of about the same size, weighing fifteen pounds.
• The suspension of the plummet in water was not considered necessary for any other reason than that water was continually trickling down the wire, and dropping on the plummet.
• If you are to become merely men in petticoats, what will become of us? We shall go down, down, down, like the leaden plummet cast into the depths of the sea.
• Her swift wings cleave the air straight as a plummet falls.
• He would need his longest plummet to sound the depths of her consciousness.
• Poetry is not to be bounded with a measuring line or sounded with a plummet.
• He would hover high up, at well over ten thousand feet from the ground, then drop straight for the earth, like a plummet, nose directly downward, seemingly bent on destruction.
• And, whirling over and over in midair, he dropped like a plummet.
• This unexpected check in the full flight of ardour dropped her to earth like a plummet.
• The exact point of the plummet of your bog-line must centre on the middle of that nail head.
• He did some rough shifting, at first, until the point of the plummet was exactly over the nail head.
• So if they felt doubtful they got a plummet, greased it, and dipped it overboard.
• He drops his plummet into shoal and deep water and from his contemplation of the wreck-littered shore grows skeptical of the wisdom of all pilots.
• A few years ago we hung a plummet from the top of this monument to the bottom.
• Each man was prepared with a long strong cord line, with a couple of hooks fastened to the ends of about a foot of whalebone, with a small leaden plummet in the centre.

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