“A ripe plum will be very sweet, flavorful and juicy. A less-than-ripe plum will have no sweetness.”
“Willows, dogwoods, birches, red alders, and Indian plums line the wetlands, which are alive with birds and waterfowl.”
“As fate would have it, the minor role was a plum, the kind novices dream about.”
plumming
(mining) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lodeinclines.
“She decided to buy some plumcake but Downes's plumcake had not enough almond icing on top of it so she went over to a shop in Henry Street.”
“Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts.”