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Plumbers work with pipes. From the distant (Roman) past until fairly recently, when we realised it can poison the water running through it, water pipes tended to be made from Lead.

Lead is 'Plumbum' in latin. (I know, laugh it up...)

So people who worked with lead were 'Plumbarius' which has been corrupted to Plumber.

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