The Only Use
plummet
in
Fahrenheit 451
(Edited)
- Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like butterflies puzzled by autumn, and then they were plummeting down to land, one by one, here, there, softly kneading the streets where, turned back to beetles, they shrieked along the boulevards or, as suddenly, leapt back into the air, continuing their search.
p. 119.1plummeting = falling straight
Definitions:
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(1)
(plummet) fall or decrease suddenly
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, plummet can reference the metal weight of a plumb line. (A plumb line is a cord from which a metal weight is suspended to indicate a straight line downward, or to measure depth.)