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plumber

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (from c.1100 as a surname), "a worker in any sort of lead" (roofs, gutters, pipes), from Old French plomier "lead-smelter" (Modern French plombier ) and directly from Latin plumbarius "worker in lead," noun use of adjective meaning "pertaining ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water , sewage and drainage in plumbing systems. The term dates from ancient times and is related to the Latin word for lead, "plumbum".

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES builder's/plumber's/electrician's etc mate master craftsman/chef/plumber etc ▪ A society of master chefs was formed to achieve professional status similar to that of doctors or lawyers for its members. ▪ Better-heeled artificers ...

Usage examples of plumber.

He saw guards, relaxed though in uniform, armed only with holstered pistols, an officer, and one man in overalls, incongruous as a plumber might have been in those aseptic surroundings.

Bernard Barker shifts nervously as in right-angular time a future president metamorphoses the plumbers into the cesspool cleaners: but now, inside the Watergate, the Illuminati bug is unnoticed by those planting the CREEP bug, although both were subsequently found by the technicians installing the BUGGER bug.

Fan Importer, a Glass Beveller, a Hotel Broker, an Insect Exterminator, a Junk Dealer, a Kalsomine Manufacturer, a Laundryman, a Mausoleum Architect, a Nurse, an Oculist, a Paper-Hanger, a Quilt Designer, a Roofer, a Ship Plumber, a Tinsmith, an Undertaker, a Veterinarian, a Wig Maker, an X-ray apparatus manufacturer, a Yeast producer, or a Zinc Spelter.

Angels and Charlie the Tuna and the Lone Ranger and the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman and Josephine the Plumber and Gavin MacLeod and Blake Carrington and Alexis and Dobie Gillis and Gilligan and the Skipper and That Girl and Charles Nelson Reilly and Allen Ludden and Betty White and Big Bird and Maude and Sam Malone and Sam McCloud and Pat Robertson and Kermit and Barney and Willard Scott and Rin Tin Tin and David Brinkley and Perry Mason and the Millionaire and Mr.

See the marble-bowl supplier, the mosaicist, the plumber who laid the water-pipes.

By that time, Paul had exhausted his wurst and finished the beer and moved on to the examination of a German soccer magazine, as though plumbers of distinction had nothing better to do than kill a Thursday afternoon.

There is something in the tone of those instructions of his to Sancho that evokes in one the image of an elderly, seedy, obscure poet, who has never been successful in anything, giving to his sturdy, popular, extravert son a sound bit of advice as to how to be a prosperous plumber or politician.

East Harlem, William George, soon known by his middle name, was the second of the ten children of Mike Meany, a plumber who rose to become an officer of his union local.

Why, from the very moment an American started building his or her Miami Moorish house in the exclusive colony which the Meskins disparagingly called Disneylandia, the poor, helpless, despised retiree could expect to be gulled, bilked, hoodwinked and price-gouged by every Meskin contractor, carpenter, plumber, etc.

Round him were the principal witnesses, Madame Flameche, widow of the victim, and Louis Ladureau, cabinetmaker, and Jean Durdent, plumber.

It was while the master plumber was supervising that job of construction that he met Ioan and, despite the considerable language barrier, by the time the donnickers were finished he and she were regularly going out on the town together.

The striped-pyjamas guy upstairs must have been a word person, then: a RejoovenEsense speechwriter, an ideological plumber, a spin doctor, a hairsplitter for hire.

She thought of Ophion, the circular river, as the toilet of Gaea and of herself as the plumber.

The file had been started on Bloom at the tune he defended a vocal land-grant heur, one Cfear Pacheco, a part-time plumber from Ojo Prieto, sixteen miles west of Milagro.

One was that Kozinski had been killed by a deft or lucky amateur, or maybe a semipro hired by a jealous girlfriend or outraged husband or unpaid plumber or whatever.