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plumbery|ˈplʌmərɪ|
Also 5 plomerye, 6 plombmery, plumery.
[ME. a. OF. plommerie (1304), plomberie lead-work, plumber's workshop, f. plommier plumber; in med.L. plumbāria; cf. L. plumbārius of or belonging to lead, plumbārium a place to keep leaden vessels in.]
1. A plumber's workshop.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 603/34 Plumbaria, a plomerye. c1544in Wiltsh. Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1867) X. 79 To cary the leed outh of the halle to the plombmery. 1649in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) II. 416 One room, called the Plummery, and several other rooms and lodgings belonging to the Clerk of the Works. 1823Mechanic's Mag. No. 13. 205 Stating that a plumbery had been burnt at Dover, and that the fire was occasioned by..workmen permitting some lead to boil over. 1896St. John Hope in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Ser. ii. XVI. 164 The room..was formerly the plumbery, and has in the centre a large table for casting sheets of lead.
2. Plumber's work, plumbing.
1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 547/2 Th' office of Serjeaunt of oure Plumbery within this our Reaume. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 228 Plumbery..the Art of Working in Lead. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 403 The Art of Plumbery comprehends the practice of casting and laying sheet-lead. 1853Turner Dom. Archit. II. i. 18 The jurors found that..plumbery was needed to the value of 20 marks. |