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Plumming vs Plumping - What's the difference?

plumming | plumping |

As verbs the difference between plumming and plumping

is that plumming is while plumping is .

As nouns the difference between plumming and plumping

is that plumming is (mining) the operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines while plumping is the act by which something is plumped.

plumming

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (mining) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

    • References

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    plumping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is plumped.
  • * 1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem
    • They shew the swellings of their mind, in the swellings and plumpings out of their apparel.