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plumb
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plumb as in:  it is plumb

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  • Using a pebble on a horsehair string, he dropped it deep in the hole and let it hung to see if the hole was plumb to the earth.  (source)
    plumb = exactly vertical
  • Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.  (source)
    plumb = straight
  • All unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb-down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour  (source)
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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.  (source)
plumb = straight
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common meaning

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  • You've been listening to the story of Peeby and plumb missed Indiana.  (source)
    plumb = completely (used as an intensifier)
  • Mr. Montier signs for me up at that Wallace store so's I can get my tools, my mule, my seed, my fertilizer, my food, and what few clothes I needs to keep my children from runnin' plumb naked.  (source)
    plumb = completely
  • Ah'm plumb wore out and hungry as a wallow-hog.  (source)
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  • Tree branches, power lines, porch awnings collapsed like they'd plumb given up.†  (source)
  • Monsieur Delacour was nowhere near as attractive as his wife; he was a head shorter and extremely plumb, with a little, pointed black beard.†  (source)
  • Laying there with a fever talking plumb out of his head.†  (source)
  • "Marty," Dad says, and now his voice is just plumb tired.†  (source)
  • If you surf over a chuckhole, the robo-prongs plumb its asphalty depths.†  (source)
  • But old Pilgrim here has plumb forgotten.†  (source)
  • The babies all got diarrhea and plumb dried up.†  (source)
  • He's plumb wore out.†  (source)
  • I thought he was plumb out of it.†  (source)
  • Plumb lost it.†  (source)
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