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fathomIn mining, seafaring, and handling timber, a unit of depth measurement (1.83 m/6 ft) used prior to metrication; it approximates to the distance between an adult man's hands when the arms are outstretched. |
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| If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice. Oodles and oodles of it, my gentlemen, in cask and chest, in cask and chest, a fathom under the sand. The mysterious sun-sickness, which the experts of Australia could not fathom, still ripped and tore my tissues. |
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