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Webster 1913 Edition

Plumming

Plum′ming

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Noun.
[See
Plumb
.]
(Min.)
The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

Webster 1828 Edition

Plumming

PLUM'MING

,
Noun.
Among miners, the operation of finding by means of a mine dial the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work,or to find which way the lode inclines.

Definition 2024

plumming

plumming

English

Verb

plumming

  1. present participle of plum

Noun

plumming ‎(uncountable)

  1. (mining) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

References

  • plumming in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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