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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plumber
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 must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves.
▪ Here passengers ate delicacies prepared by a master chef under an arched ceiling of embossed leather and oil paintings.
▪ His problem was solved by Bill Bird, a master craftsman, based at Blockley in Gloucestershire.
▪ I., will resume its master chefs series in the autumn.
▪ Some became apprentices who worked beside a master craftsman to become competent in their field.
▪ The knight speaks for the landed interest, the merchant for international trade, and the capper for the working master craftsman.
▪ They work under the supervision of a Meister, a master craftsman who also is a skilled teacher.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the plumber she called when the toilet kept plugging up sometimes found plastic baggies in it.
▪ Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item, so an order would have gone out to a local plumber.
▪ Given a choice between the man of your dreams and a plumber, choose the latter.
▪ If Bill Wyman had been a 47-year-old plumber who seduced her daughter, Patsy Smith would have screamed to the police.
▪ The plumbers of the Internet keep cleaning up.
▪ Who does the decorating, organises builders, plumbers, electricians?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plumber

Plumber \Plumb"er\, n. [F. plombier. See Plumb.] One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead pipes.

2. Hence: Any worker who installs or repairs piping and related equipment for conveyance of water, gas, or drainage into or out of buildings, or within buildings to fixtures or equipment using water. The type of material used for the conduits varies with the application, and may be may be of lead, iron, copper, glass, palstic, or other material.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plumber

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 to lead," from plumbum "lead" (see plumb (n.)). Meaning focused 19c. on "workman who installs pipes and fittings" as lead water pipes became the principal concern of the trade. In U.S. Nixon administration (1969-74), the name of a special unit for investigation of "leaks" of government secrets.

Wiktionary
plumber

n. 1 One who works in or with lead. 2 One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. 3 # One who installs piping for potable and waste water. 4 A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information 5 (context British English) In the Royal Navy, nickname for an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.

WordNet
plumber

n. a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances [syn: pipe fitter]

Wikipedia
Plumber (program)

The plumber, in the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, is a mechanism for reliable uni- or multicast inter-process communication of formatted textual messages. It uses the Plan 9 network file protocol, 9P, rather than a special-purpose IPC mechanism.

Any number of clients may listen on a named port (a file) for messages. Ports and port routing are defined by plumbing rules. These rules are dynamic. Each listening program receives a copy of matching messages. For example, if the data /sys/lib/plumb/basic is plumbed with the standard rules, it is sent to the edit port. The port will write a copy of the message to each listener. In this case, all running editors will interpret this message as a file name, and open the file.

The plumber is the 9P file server that provides this service. Clients may use libplumb to format messages. Since the messages are 9P, they are network transparent.

Plumber

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".

Plumber (disambiguation)

A plumber is a tradesperson who specialises in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage, drainage, or industrial process plant piping.

Plumber may also refer to:

  • Plumber, a video game for the Vii and VG Pocket Caplet
  • The Plumber (1979 film), a 1979 Australian film
  • The Plumber (cartoon), 1933 animated short featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  • Plumber (program), a mechanism for interprocess communication in the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
  • White House Plumbers, a White House Special Investigations Unit
  • A nickname for Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian prime minister 1992–1999

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.