Usually means: Measure vertical alignment using gravity.
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  1. plumb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plumb: Merriam-Webster
  3. plumb, plumb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plumb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plumb: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plumb: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plumb, plumb: Wordnik
  8. plumb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Plumb, plumb, plumb-: Wiktionary
  10. plumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plumb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plumb: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plumb, plumb: Dictionary.com
  14. plumb (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Plumb (Field Music album), Plumb (Plumb album), Plumb (band), Plumb (singer), Plumb (tools), Plumb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plumb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plumb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plumb: Rhymezone
  19. Plumb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plumb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. plumb: FreeDictionary.org
  22. plumb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. plumb: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plumb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. plumb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plumb: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUMB: Masonic Dictionary
  2. plumb: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plumb, plumb, plumb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plumb: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Plumb: Construction Glossary
  4. Plumb: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See plumbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (plumb)

noun:  A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
noun:  (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
noun:  The perpendicular direction or position.
adjective:  Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
adjective:  (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
adverb:  In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
adverb:  (informal) Squarely, directly; deeply, completely.
verb:  To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
verb:  To attach to a water supply and drain.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
verb:  To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
verb:  To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
verb:  (dated) To seal something with lead.
verb:  (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
verb:  (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
verb:  (US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
verb:  (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”). [The fruit and its tree.]

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