Bible dictionaries
Plumb-Line; Plummet
What Bible dictionaries say about “Plumb-Line; Plummet”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Plummet - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PLUM'MET, n. [See Plumb.]
1. A long piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
2. An instrument used by carpenters, masons, _c. in adjusting erections to a perpendicular line, and with a square, to determine a horizontal line. It consists of a piece of lead fastened to a line.
3. Any weight.
4. A piece of lead used by school boys to rule their paper for writing.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
plum'-lin, plum'-et, plum'-it.
See TOOLS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915