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ˈplungeon
[a. F. plongeon (OF. plongon, Flor. et Blanc.) a diver, a bird of genus Colymbus, f. plonger to dive, plunge + -eon:—L. -iō(nem: cf. pigeon.]
†1. A diving bird; a diver. Obs.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xxii, Because he plongeth contynuelly in such manere, he is called Plongeon or Dyvar. 1589Rider Bibl. Schol. 1704 A Plungeon: a kinde of water fowle with a long reddish bill, Phalacrocorax. 1601Holland Pliny I. 296 Among the Alps: where also the Plungeons [L. mergi] or bald Rauens be, which heretofore were thought proper and peculiar to the Baleare Islands. 1706Phillips, Plungeon or Diver, a sort of water⁓fowl. Hence1730–6in Bailey (folio); 1755 in Johnson.
2. south-west. dial. A ford across a rhine (rhine1).
c1685A. Paschall Let. in S. Heywood Vindication of Mr. Fox's Hist. (1811) p. xl, The horse, which the Lord Grey led marched towards the upper Plungeon. Ibid., Whether Sir Francis were there..or came to the Plungeon afterwards..we do not know. 1894Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough I. xxxix. 314 They [sc. the Somerset ‘rhines’] could only be crossed, even by single horsemen, at fords, called by the peasantry ‘plungeons’ or ‘steanings’. 1933W. S. Churchill Marlborough I. xii. 216 Grey's cavalry would branch off and..cross the Bussex Rhine at one of the plungeons to the east of the royal camp. 1955Hist. Today V. 57/2 There were two easy crossings for cavalry, known as the upper..and lower ‘plungeons’. 1969C. C. Trench Western Rising x. 209 He [sc. Feversham] ordered the reserve cavalry in the village..to cross the Bussex Rhine by the upper plungeon. Ibid., Similarly three troops of horse and one of dragoons crossed the lower plungeon. |