The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
A desirable thing.
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.
A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
A fool, idiot.
A testicle.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:
Prunus cerasifera, the cherry plum or myrobalan
the Chinese plum or Japanese plum
Prunus spinosa, the sloe
the bear's plum
North American plums
, the American plum
, the Chickasaw plum or sandhill plum
, the hortulan plum
, the Canadian plum or black plum
, the creek plum or hog plum
Prunus subcordata, the Klamath plum or Oregon plum
(better known as apricots)
The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
Of a dark bluish-red colour.
Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
Plumb
Completely; utterly.
To plumb.
Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.
In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
Squarely, directly; completely.
A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
The perpendicular direction or position.
To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
To attach to a water supply and drain.
To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
To seal something with lead.
To work as a plumber.
To fall or sink like a plummet.
To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
To position vertically above or below.
