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FATHOM

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 202 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FATHOM (a word common, in various forms, to Scandinavian and Teutonic
languages
 ; cf. Danish faun, Dutch vaam and
Ger. Faden, and meaning " the arms extended "; the ultimate origin is a root pet, seen in the Gr. sreraevbeat, to spread), a measure of length, being the distance from the tip of one
middle
 
finger
  to the tip of the other, when the arms are stretched out to their widest extent. This length has been standardized to a measure of 6 ft., and as such is used mainly in soundings as a unit for measuring the
depth
  of the sea. " Fathom " is also used in the measurement of timber, when it is equivalent to 6 it. sq.; similarly, in
mining
 , a fathom is a portion of ground running the whole thickness of the vein of ore, and is 6 ft. in breadth and thickness. The verb " to fathom," i.e. to
sound
  or measure with a fathom-line, is used figuratively, meaning to go into a subject deeply, to penetrate, or to explore thoroughly.
See J. J.
Blunt
 , Right Use of the. Fathers, p. 15 if.
See
Stanton
 ,
Place
  of Authority in
Religion
 , p. 165 f.
Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum.
Griechischen christlichen Schriftsteliern der ersten drei Jahrhunderte.


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