Unplumb

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the lead from. transitive

    "If the Independents of those times did not, as Mr. Burke says, “Unplumb the dead to cast bullets to fire at the living,” it appears that their rapacity and avarice, stimulated by the same ideas, induced them to lead the way to the same object; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not plumb or vertical.

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"If the Independents of those times did not, as Mr. Burke says, “Unplumb the dead to cast bullets to fire at the living,” it appears that their rapacity and avarice, stimulated by the same ideas, induced them to lead the way to the same object; […]"

Etymology

From un- + plumb.

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