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1748 Answers King's Coll. Aberdeen & Representatives Principal Chalmers 4 This together with the Rent in the old South Gavel..by pushing the Side-Walls out of Plumb, has occasioned the present Disrepair.

1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iii. 71 Severall houses..incline forward so much that the top is in some two foot off the plum, and looks as if they were falling forward.

1782 F. Douglas Gen. Descr. E. Coast Scotl. xxxiv. 256 There is neither crack nor crevice in the wall, nor is it an inch out of plum.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 9/2 Experience shows that ordinary posts, however well set, will not answer for permanent braces. Long and heavy tension of the wires will pull them out of plumb, and leave the wires hanging loose.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Mar. 3/2 The column is seriously off plumb.

1898 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 61 546 A rough measure is given..of how far the existing condition is, so to speak, ‘out of plumb’.

1910 G. J. Wharton Grand Canyon of Arizona viii. 59 The cross-bedded sandstone may be seen far below on the right, out of plumb with the same mass on the left.

1940 E. B. White One Man's Meat 145 A line as smooth as velvet to the ear, as pretty as a feather to the eye, yet a line definitely out of plumb with the frame of the poem.

1951 J. Agee Morning Watch ii. 61 Everything whirled hazily for a moment, then, with a kind of sliding or shunting like the falling into plumb of a weighted curtain, came clear and stayed still.

2004 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 25 Sept. g2 130 years of westerlies hitting this place have left it with a tilt. It's easily a couple of inches out of plumb.