Word Meanings - FADME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fathom. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to FADME)

• FATHOMER
  One who fathoms.
• FATHOMLESS
  1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak. 2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.
• FATHOM
  akin to OS. faedhmos the outstretched arms, D. vadem, vaam, fathom, OHG. fadom, fadum, G. faden fathom, thread, Icel. faedhmr fathom, Sw. famn, Dan. favn; cf. Gr. patere to lie open, extend. Cf. Patent, 1. A measure of length, containing six feet;
• FATHOMABLE
  Capable of being fathomed.