Blue Plumb (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Blue Plumb

A bullet.—Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R—’s blue plumbs; a volley of ball, shot from soldiers’ firelocks.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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