All 3 Uses of
fathom
in
The Old Man and the Sea
- Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty-fathom coils which could be made fast to the other spare coils so that, if it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.†
p. 31.8fathom = come to understand
- He had three forty-fathom coils of line in reserve now, as well as the coil he was using.†
p. 44.2 *
- After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and cut it away too and link up the reserve coils.†
p. 51.6
Definition:
to come to understand