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fath.

abbreviation for

  1. fathom


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One Qajar king, Fath Ali Shah (1771–1834), is said to have had 160 wives.

“loving fath—” father, I suppose—“Morris Mai—” the rest is burned away.

This is an ignorant remark; for this form of execution was more than once inflicted during the reign of Fath Ali Shah.

Unfathomable, un-fath′om-a-bl, adj. that cannot be fathomed, too deep to be measured or to be understood.

I can see partly how you must have felt about the baby, and about fath—I mean, about the whole thing.

Now vot is evidently the same root as the German vat in Vater, and the English fath in father.

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