Definition of "fathoms" []

• Plural form of fathom. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fathom. (verb)

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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."
• "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."
• "The lead-line is marked into lengths of six feet, called fathoms, by knots, or pieces of leather, or old sail-cloth."