plumming
English edit
Verb edit
plumming
- present participle and gerund of plum
Noun edit
plumming (uncountable)
- (mining) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
- (photography) A plum-colored distortion of prints.
References edit
- “plumming”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.