plunging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of plunge

adj

1. (not-comparable)That descends steeply.
2. (not-comparable)Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.
3. (not-comparable)Very low-cut.

noun

1. An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.
2. A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.

   “Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].”

   “Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.”

   “It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.”