Plumb - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: plumbPlumb
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...
craft union
craft union : a labor union with membership limited to workers in the same craft (as carpentry or plumbing) compare industrial union ...
walk through
walk through the final inspection of a property being sold by the buyer to confirm that any contingencies specified in the purchase agreement such as repairs have been completed, fixture and non-fixture property is in place and confirm the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing systems are in working order. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
bedsit
a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations and some plumbing...
bedsitter
a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations and some plumbing...
Clinometer
An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata pr the slope of an embankment or cutting a kind of plumb level...
Gimbal
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions or for suspending anything as a barometer ships compass chronometer etc so that it will remain plumb or level when its support is tipped as by the rolling of a ship It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first...
Level
A line or surface to which at every point a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water this is the true level and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere...
Perpendicle
Something hanging straight down a plumb line...
Plumbing
The art of casting and working in lead and applying it to building purposes especially the business of furnishing fitting and repairing pipes for conducting water sewage etc...
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