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- noun Alternative spelling of
plumb bob .
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Examples
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Perhaps a plumb-bob? that guess is as good as any.
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Perhaps a plumb-bob? that guess is as good as any.
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Several urgent tugsat the doorbell, you understandsummoned me to the front door and Id grumpily left off the plumb-bob.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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Lindenbrook deduces that that Saknussem discovered another world beneath ours and managed to get the plumb-bob message out before he died.
Archive 2008-11-01 Michael May 2008
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Chipping away at the exterior shell, Lindenbrook discovers markings on the Icelandic rock and eventually cleans it up enough to see that it's really a stone plumb-bob.
Archive 2008-11-01 Michael May 2008
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Lindenbrook deduces that that Saknussem discovered another world beneath ours and managed to get the plumb-bob message out before he died.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Michael May 2008
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Chipping away at the exterior shell, Lindenbrook discovers markings on the Icelandic rock and eventually cleans it up enough to see that it's really a stone plumb-bob.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Michael May 2008
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Lindenbrook transcribes the text on the plumb-bob and learns that it reveals the entrance to the world below.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Michael May 2008
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Lindenbrook transcribes the text on the plumb-bob and learns that it reveals the entrance to the world below.
Archive 2008-11-01 Michael May 2008
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I watched as he crouched behind his ball, held up his putter between thumb and forefinger to plumb-bob the line, and finally approached his ball.
Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest Bartlett, James Y. 2004
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