Term: fathom: (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore
Candidate hypernym: unit of measurement: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange → 1
Candidate hypernym: office of the dead: an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church → 0
Candidate hypernym: scot: a native or inhabitant of Scotland → 0
Candidate hypernym: tripper: (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations → 0
Candidate hypernym: narrowness: a restriction of range or scope → 0
Candidate hypernym: softy: a person who is weak and excessively sentimental → 0
Candidate hypernym: asteridae: a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder → 0
Candidate hypernym: viper: venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw → 0
Candidate hypernym: stratification: the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata → 0
Candidate hypernym: set: (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols → 0
Candidate hypernym: key signature: the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key → 0