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Webster 1913 Edition


Plumming

Plum′ming

,
Noun.
[See
Plumb
.]
(Min.)
The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

Webster 1828 Edition


Plumming

PLUM'MING

,
Noun.
Among miners, the operation of finding by means of a mine dial the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work,or to find which way the lode inclines.