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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually conical metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A conoid-shaped metal bob or weight attached to the end of a plumb-line. See also cut under
plumb-rule .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
metal weight attached to the end of aplumb line .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the metal bob of a plumb line
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dontcry commented on the word plumb bob
I love the plumb bob! I'm so glad you added it to the tool shed!
May 11, 2008