Both Uses of
fathom
in
The Silver Chair
- Is it not the most comical and ridiculous thing in the world to think of them all going about their business and never dreaming that under their peaceful fields and floors, only a fathom down, there is a great army ready to break out upon them like a fountain!†
Chpt 11 *
- And everyone says to himself, What's that? and everyone answers himself and says, There's a crack or chasm split open and a nice warm glow coming up through it from the Really Deep Land, a thousand fathom under us.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(fathom as in: can't fathom) to come to understand