Clues for the word "PLUMB"
We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 104 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on September 05, 2025.
Definition of plumb
- n. - A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.
- a. - Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.
- adv. - In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.
- v. t. - To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.
- v. t. - To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.
- v. t. - To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.
- v. t. - To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.
Referring Clues
- Carpenter's gadget
- Downright
- Depth checker
- Perpendicular
- Perfectly vertical
- Lead weight
- Eve of "The Brady Bunch"
- Absolutely, or absolutely vertical
- Vertical
- Vertical determinant
- Weight that sounds like a fruit
- Make vertical
- Exactly vertical
- Repair pipes
- Bring to vertical
- Completely, so to speak
- Perfectly perpendicular
- Verticality indicator
- Water-depth measurer
- Exactly
- Level
- Water depth measurer
- Completely vertical
- Fathom
- Lead weight for measuring depth
- Born under Victoria, true
- Sound colour: black
- Tree said to be sound
- Second fruit? Exactly
- Exactly - in a vertical line
- Absolutely straight
- Exactly - perpendicular
- Sound fruit, they say
- Fathom - out-and-out
- Smoker in lead is sound
- Measure the depth
- Sound like fruit?
- Absolutely straight - sound
- In sound, the perfect thing is to test depth
- Top boss quietly going up to keep chimney vertical
- Check the depth exactly
- Fathom precisely
- Utterly on the level
- Absolutely excellent in speech
- Absolutely sound?
- Measure depth
- Get to the bottom of
- ___ bob: vertical measuring tool
- Assess the depth of
- Probe
- Vertically level
- Measure the depth of
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - September 05, 2025
- LA Times - May 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 10, 2024
- New York Times - August 01, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 20, 2024
- New York Times - November 12, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 05, 2023
- Mirror Mini - May 23, 2023
- New York Times - April 16, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2022
- Family Time - July 11, 2022
- Daily Quick - January 20, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 18, 2018
- Daily Cryptic - September 05, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 16, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - August 07, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 01, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - April 10, 2017
- Guardian Quick - April 10, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 24, 2017
- Guardian Quick - December 31, 2016
- Universal - October 05, 2016
- USA Today - September 20, 2016
- Netword - August 14, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - July 24, 2016
- Family Time - May 02, 2016
- USA Today - July 28, 2015
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