The Only Use of
plumb line
in
As I Lay Dying
- The path runs straight as a plumb-line, worn smooth by feet and baked brick-hard by July, between the green rows of laid-by cotton, to the cottonhouse in the center of the field, where it turns and circles the cottonhouse at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn so by feet in fading precision.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(plumb line) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended to indicate a straight line downward (or to measure depth)