plummeting

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present participle of plummet
plummet
A plumb bob or a plumb line
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Violent or dramatic fall
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A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water

I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -Shak.

plummet
a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line
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A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing
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decline; fall; drop
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a piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical
plummet
{f} fall, drop, pitch; dive, plunge, sink
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{n} a leaden weight, leaden pencil, ball
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To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly
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See under Plumb, n
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A leadpoint, also known as plummet, is a piece of lead alloy, sometimes contained in a holder (the precursor of a pencil), which could be used for drawing, annotation, and ruling Leadpoint began to be widely used in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Graphite, derived from carbon, was not generally used before the seventeenth century
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Tear-dropped shaped weight of ground stone with a drilled hole or shallow groove at the small end Used as weights on casting nets for waterfowl and fish collecting in Middle and Late Archaic times
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Hence, any weight
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If an amount, rate, or price plummets, it decreases quickly by a large amount. In Tokyo share prices have plummeted for the sixth successive day The Prime Minister's popularity has plummeted to an all-time low in recent weeks The shares have plummeted from 130p to 2.25p in the past year. = plunge
plummet
the metal bob of a plumb line
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hence a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line
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drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
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A problematic polished stone artifact that has many conjectured intended uses In all likelihood a cerimonial object
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If someone or something plummets, they fall very fast towards the ground, usually from a great height. The jet burst into flames and plummeted to the ground
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{i} plumb, plumb line; lead weight used to determine perpendicularity
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drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted
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A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under plumb, n
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