Noun: plumb
| Singular | plumb |
| Plural | plumbs |
Sample Sentences
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Customers turned away from rickety chairs, stands of drawers that refused to open, or had no handles, lop-sided wardrobes whose doors were out of plumb or whose mirrors were cracked. [1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 61:]
Nouns inflected like plumb
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum. See: Middle English Nouns '
plumbe', Latin Nouns '
plumba'.