Definition of Plungings

1. Noun. (plural of plunging) ¹

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Definition of Plungings

1. plunging [n] - See also: plunging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plungings

plundering
plunderous
plunders
plunge
plunge bra
plunge waterfall
plunge waterfalls
plunged
plunger
plunger mute
plungerlike
plungers
plunges
plunging
plungingly
plungings (current term)
plunk
plunk down
plunk for
plunked
plunker
plunkers
plunket
plunkier
plunkiest
plunking
plunks
plunky
pluot
pluots

Literary usage of Plungings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historical Geography of the Holy Land: Especially in Relation to the by George Adam Smith (1897)
"As another great feature of the battle the poem remembers the plunging of horses :— Then did the horse-hoofs stamp, By reason of the plungings, ..."

2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1892)
"As another great feature of the battle the poem remembers the plunging of horses :— Then did the horse-hoofs slamp, Hy reason of the plungings, ..."

3. The Silver-Burdett Readers by Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet (1906)
"But the turbulence of the water was slowly subsiding at last, and the boat floated, still unsteadily indeed, but with less violent plungings than before. ..."

4. Sprinkling, the Only Mode of Baptism Made Known in the Scriptures: And the by Absalom Peters (1848)
"The foundation of the doctrine of baptisms;—doctrine of plungings. Mark vii. 4, 8. The washing of cups and pots, and of brazen vessels, and tables;—the ..."

5. A Handbook of Scientific and Literary Bible Difficulties: Or, Facts and by Robert Tuck (1891)
"... stamped and struggled by the means of the plungings and plungings of the mighty chiefs " in the quaking morass and the rising streams. ..."

6. Apostolic Baptism: Facts and Evidences on the Subjects and Mode of Christian by Charles Taylor (1850)
"The foundation of the doctrine of baptisms ; —doctrine of plungings. ... Services, in meats and drinks, and divers washings;—divers plungings. ..."

7. Lectures on the history of the Jewish church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1883)
"Trample down, O my soul, their strength ! Then stamped the hoofs of the horses, From the plungings and plungings of the mighty ones. ..."

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