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plumb bob
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plumb bob [′pləm ‚bäb]
(engineering)
A weight suspended on a string to indicate the direction of the vertical.
plumb bob, plummet
A shaped metal weight which is suspended from the lower end of a line to determine the vertical. (See illustration p. 744.)
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