PLUMBER (plumber)

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Irregular inflected form: plumber   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does plumber mean? 

• PLUMBER (noun)
  The noun PLUMBER has 1 sense:

1. a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances

  Familiarity information: PLUMBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pipe fitter; plumber

Hypernyms ("plumber" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

 Context examples 

That was the way Jimmy, the plumber, and all the old gang valued him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You knew that this man Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Presently he stopped and picked out a square piece of board, such as is usually left to enable plumbers to get at the joints of the gas-pipes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am a plumber with a rising business, Escott, by name.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

John Horner, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady’s jewel-case.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jimmy, the plumber, he met there, in the company of a tall, blond girl who promptly forsook him for Martin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is an ordinary plumber’s smoke-rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jim was a plumber's apprentice whose weak chin and hedonistic temperament, coupled with a certain nervous stupidity, promised to take him nowhere in the race for bread and butter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Father was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)