Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
Sir T. Browne.
Plunge, v. i. 1. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other
fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged
into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea.
Dryden.
To plunge into guilt of a murther.
Tillotson.
2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a
horse does.
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
Bp. Hall.
3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other
contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous
speculations. [Cant]
Plunging fire (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated
position.
Plunge, n. 1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a
plunge.
2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or
overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or
accuse her son.
Sir P. Sidney.
And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise me from amidst
this plunge of sorrows?
Addison.
3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently
forward, like an unruly horse.
4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
[Cant]
Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the
bather can wholly immerse himself. -- Plunge, or plunging, battery
(Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged
into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
Plun"ger (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a
forcer in pumps.
3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless
speculator. [Cant]
4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy
consistence. Knight.