Definition of "plumming" [plum•ming]

• Present participle of plum. (verb)
• 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 lode inclines. (noun)

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• "Using this method could drain your trap (the bendy part in your sink's plumming), causing some pretty creepy gasses to possibly ooze out of your sink."
• "I went to Home Depot in the plumming dept and found a black robber O-ring to slip over the ram rod at the muzzle end."
• "Using this method could drain your trap the bendy part in your sink's plumming, causing some pretty creepy gasses to possibly ooze out of your sink."