Word.ws English Dictionary

plumb-lining

plumb-lining is the present participle and gerund of plumb-line.

Meaning of plumb-line

Verb

plumb-line (third-person singular simple present plumb-lines, present participle plumb-lining, simple past and past participle plumb-lined)

  1. (transitive) To measure with a plumb line.

Questions about plumb-lining

What is plumb-lining the present participle and gerund of?
Plumb-lining is the present participle and gerund of plumb-line.

Words near plumb-lining in the dictionary

  1. plumb-bob
  2. plumb-bobs
  3. plumb-line
  4. plumb-lined
  5. plumb-lines
  6. plumb-lining
  7. plumbable
  8. plumbaceous
  9. plumbage
  10. plumbages
  11. plumbagin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plumb-lining (page history and authors); plumb-line (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “plumb-lining.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plumb-lining. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.