LekhoriLekhoriA piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
I'le ſeeke him deeper than ere plummet ſounded, / And with him there lye mudded.
Hence, any weight.
His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet.
A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead, sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“le...
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