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7 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for FATHOMS in dictionary:

VERB:

FATHOM, to ascertain the depth of
understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought
measure the depth of (water)

NOUN:

a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 metres), chiefly used in reference to the depth of water

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to understand

Words related to FATHOMS

fathom14 fathomed17 fathoming18

How to use FATHOMS in a sentence

In 1869, we took two casts in depths greater than 2,000 fathoms.
The way he tested them prior to actually engaging them was to make each dive after a bright tin object thrown into so many fathoms of water.
The Nautilus usually floated between fifty and a hundred fathoms deep.
These islands we left on the starboard side, passing within four miles of them, where we had twenty-four fathoms water.
However, we soon extricated ourselves from it, and afterward never struck ground with a line of forty fathoms.
I first stretched over to within two miles of the eastern, shore, and tacked in fifty-three fathoms water.
In this situation, the depth of water was forty fathoms, over a rocky bottom.
At the north end of the bay are the Bottle Rocks separated from the point by a channel two and a quarter fathoms deep.
The anchorage between the entrance and Middle Head is in five and six fathoms mud, and in the centre of the western basin the depth is five fathoms mud.
We landed on the South-West corner of Corio Harbour, where we found four fathoms close to the beach, immediately over which is the north end of the township of Geelong.

Just before dark, the soundings decreased to 29 fathoms, Pine Peak of Percy Group, bearing South-West 10 miles.
The bank of soundings extends further off the North-west coast, as eighty-five miles north of Depuch Island we had only 75 fathoms, fine white sand.
Within side the deep water turned on the starboard hand, but in many parts there was not more than 3 fathoms.
At noon anchored off Porto Praya, in 12 fathoms water and sandy bottom.
In the evening the anchor was let go after a cast of fifty fathoms, but slipped off the bank, and had to be hove up again.
Weighed in the afternoon with a very light air from South-West, and stood to the North-West, but by sunset, when we anchored in 27 fathoms mud, we had made only about eight miles.
It is a rocky shoal about 1 acre in extent and having 7 fathoms of water.
Depths are from 5 to 25 fathoms, the bottom being rather less broken than on the Inner Ridge.
On other parts the depths vary from 5 to 22 fathoms.
Depths here average about 40 fathoms on a hard, gravelly bottom, where haddock usually are taken in the spring, pollock in the fall, and cod in the winter months.
Depths here are from 40 to 55 fathoms over a comparatively smooth bottom.
Depths range from 30 to 65 fathoms over a bottom of sand, with spots of gravel and pebbles.
Run up, and anchor off the town in 17 or 18 fathoms, clear soft ground.
In this channel, which is much the best, being rather broader than the eastern channel, you will have four, four and a half, and five fathoms.
The passage between Point Hunter and Nepean Island is a very good one, there being three fathoms close to Nepean Isle, and eight fathoms in mid-channel.
We sounded in 26 fathoms of water, over a bottom of soft mud.
In standing in for an opening, which appeared on the east side of York Minster, we had forty, thirty-seven, fifty, and sixty fathoms water, a bottom of small stones and shells.

Similar words containing FATHOM without suffix s

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