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Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..

Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war..

Fishhawk :: Fishhawk (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard..

Immersed :: Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid..

Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger..

Duck :: Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

Ram :: Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.

Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.

Plunge :: Plunge (n.) 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..

Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything..

Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..

Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again..

Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..

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