To weight with plummets, or as with plummets.
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A piece of lead or other metal attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, determining the vertical, etc.
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An instrument used by carpenters, masons, and others in adjusting erections to a vertical line; a plumb-rule.
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The pommel or knob on the hilt of a sword.
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A weight.
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A piece of lead formerly used by school-boys to rule paper for writing.