(nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”).
The perpendicular direction or position.
verb
(US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
(dated) To seal something with lead.
(intransitive) To work as a plumber.
(nautical) To position vertically above or below.
(rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
(transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
To attach to a water supply and drain.
To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
pobby
pobby
adj
Like pobs; pulpy, swollen.
pobox
polab
pombe
pombe
noun
An African beer made from millet.
pombo
prebo
presb
probe
probe
noun
(aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
(astronautics) A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
(biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
(figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
(figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
(game of Go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
(sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
(surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
verb
(transitive) To insert a probe into.
(transitive, intransitive) To explore, investigate, or question
pubal
pubes
pubes
noun
The pubic hair.
The pubic region.
plural of pube
plural of pubis; pubic bones.
pubic
pubic
adj
Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes.
pubis
pubis
noun
the pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis
rebop
rebop
noun
(dated, music) bebop
repub
repub
Noun
Republican
upbar
upbar
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.
(transitive, rare) To fasten with a bar.
upbay
upbid
upbid
noun
An upward bid.
verb
To bid upward.
upbow
upbow
noun
(music) A note performed on a string instrument by drawing the bow upward or to the left across the instrument, moving the point of contact from the bow's tip toward the frog.