Moby-Dick: Plumb
Plumb
- downright or absolute
- reference to a plumb line (a small bit of lead tied to a line and used by masons and carpenters to establish a true vertical)
The word plumb appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 8 > Sentence 1:
No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the fore-castle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
Concordance for the word plumb from Moby-Dick.
