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feá — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beech noun A tree with smooth grey bark and oval pointed leaves, or the pale wood it produces.
  • fathom noun A unit of length equal to six feet (about 1.8 metres), traditionally used to measure the depth of water.

Senses

feá is used for these senses in English:

  • beech A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
  • fathom (chiefly, nautical, historical, US) A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.

fathom — full definition

  1. noun A unit of length equal to six feet (about 1.8 metres), traditionally used to measure the depth of water.
  2. verb To understand something fully, especially something puzzling or complicated.