PLUMMET

plummet

Noun

  1. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
  2. A plumb bob or a plumb line.
  3. Hence, any weight.
  4. A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing
  5. a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
  6. Violent or dramatic fall
  7. decline; fall; drop

Verb

  1. To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
    After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.


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