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- noun Plural form of
fathom . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fathom .
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Examples
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One hundred and fifty fathoms is nine hundred feet, and every link of all that length was smoothed and polished as no link ever was before.
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Spark, I think, would reply that the novelist can do nothing else, because she simply has this power over her characters; not to admit it, to hide that control in fathoms of agreeable artifice, is to act in bad faith.
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Spark, I think, would reply that the novelist can do nothing else, because she simply has this power over her characters; not to admit it, to hide that control in fathoms of agreeable artifice, is to act in bad faith.
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One hundred and fifty fathoms is nine hundred feet, and every link of all that length was smoothed and polished as no link ever was before.
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One hundred and fifty fathoms is nine hundred feet, and every link of all that length was smoothed and polished as no link ever was before.
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Lightship. 38 miles to the shoal of 55 fathoms, which is near its center.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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This inner ridge has a shoal of 35 fathoms on the western end, from which it deepens eastward to about 45 fathoms, which is the general depth elsewhere on this piece of ground.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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According to recent computations the total area of the Baltic, including the Skagerrak and Kattegat, is 166,397 sq. m., and its volume 6907 cub. m., giving a mean depth of 36 fathoms, which is markedly less than that of any other arm of the sea of similar area.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The lead-line is marked into lengths of six feet, called fathoms, by knots, or pieces of leather, or old sail-cloth.
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The other figures denote the depth of water in English fathoms.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 Various
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