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单词 unplumb
释义 I. unˈplumb, a.
(un-1 7.)
1828Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 27 She watches over her joiners..with an eye like any hawk's, from which nothing crooked, unplumb or otherwise irregular can hide itself.
II. unˈplumb, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To take out of lead coffins.
1796Burke Let. to Noble Lord Wks. VIII. 6 They unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living. [1845Ford Handbk. Spain I. iii. 389 Nor have the dead been unplumbed to furnish missiles of death against the living.]
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