to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line
the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels
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Recent Examples of fathomedFor reasons nobody has ever quite fathomed, people finally became receptive to the concept.—Brian Santo, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2019
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Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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