The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plumbery \Plumb"er*y\, n. [F. plomberie.]
The business of a plumber. [Obs.]
A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete uncountable English) The business of a plumber; plumbing 2 (context countable English) A place where plumbing is carried out
WordNet
n. the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) [syn: plumbing]
Usage examples of "plumbery".
Dai Goesle somewhere found and brought to the tober a master of plumbery, who had invented a privy closet that did not depend solely on a pit dug underneath it, but employed a zinc tank containing solvent chemicals.
He has offered to abandon his plumbery business, to join out with us, if we will have him.
Brunhilde and Kostchei were returning to the tober to work as on any ordinary day, but the new Madame Delattre was taking an extra day off to help Pierre pack everything he would be removing from his plumbery workshop and his chambers above it, out in the quartier Marais.