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- fa
- face
- face
- face-basin, face-bowl, face-pan
- fainty
- fair, fear
- fair-skin
- fairly well
- fall
- fall
- fall away
- fall ill and shameful
- fall out
- falling crop
- false
- false boxwood
- false hog gum
- false pear
- fambly, family
- Family Islands
- family wood
- fan
- fan rake
- fanner grass
- fanner, fenno
- far as
- farm
- farrer
- farrer
- fast
- fast
- fat pine
- fat pork
- father
- Father!
- father-giver
- father-in-law
- fathom
- favour
- fe
- feared
- feather
- featherbed
- Feberary
- feed
- feeding tree
- feeg
- feel
- feen bush
- fence
- fenno
- fer
- ferruffle
- fertilize
- festation
- fester
- Festivals
- fetch
- fetch in, fetch up
- fever
- fever bush
- fever grass
- field bed
- fig tobacco
- fig tree, feeg tree
- fight somebody to do something
- fight yourself up (doing something)
- fighter
- file
- fillim
- fillimadick
- fillimingo
- fillimingo wait-man
- filthiness
- filthy days
- fin
- fin
- find yourself
- fine
- fine-fine
- finger
- finger banana
- finger pepper
- fingle
- finish
- fire
- fire engine
- fire hearth
- fire log
- fire place
- Fire-Bug
- fire-bun, fire-bum
- fire-chip
- fire-dance
- fire-fire
- fire-food
- fire-kitchen
- first
- first face cousin
- first name
- first picker
- first-time
- fish
- fish gill
- fish knife
- fish pot
- fish tea
- fish-pot edging
- fish-scale fern
- fishin
- fishin' ranch
- Fishing
- fishing bag
- fishining, fishning
- fishy
- fit
- fit out
- fit up
- five rock, six rock
- five!
- five-finger
- five-pound word
- fix
- fix
- flame fish
- flamingo bill
- flamper, flamber
- flat
- flat-row
- flattening
- flavouring meat
- fleet
- fleshman 'eas, the fleshman
- flick
- flick
- fling
- flitters
- float
- flog
- floor bed
- flour biscuit
- flour cake
- flour pap
- flour tea
- flour-bag (panty, robin)
- flower plants
- flowering aloe
- flowers
- flum-flum
- flusteration
- flux stomach
- fly pen
- fly-by-night
- fly-house
- flying ants
- flying tiger
- fo
- Folklore
- follow
- fonk
- foo-foo, fou-fou, fufu
- food store
- food wagon
- fool
- fool-fool
- fooly
- foot
- foot bottom
- foot grass
- foot-to-foot
- foot-track
- foots
- for
- for, fa, fe, fer, fo
- forbidden fruit
- force
- fore-day
- foreparents
- forget: not forget somebody
- fork
- fortify
- Fortune Island
- fortune teller
- forty-fin
- foster wife
- four-man-strength
- fowl
- fowl berry
- fowl egg
- fowl foot
- fowl snake
- fowl-crow
- fowl-foot soapberry
- fowled of doing something
- fowler
- Fox Hill Day
- fox-tail grass
- free bowels
- freeness
- Freetown
- French bull-hook
- French knife
- French trumpet flower
- fresh
- fresh cold
- freshness: do freshness
- frettining
- fringe
- fringe reef
- fringe suit
- frogwood
- from
- from side to side
- from time
- front
- front street, front road
- frowzy
- Fruit
- fufu
- fugger
- full
- full (up)
- full water
- full-crop
- fun
- funk
- funk out
- funky
- furnitures
- furrer
- furrer
- fuss
- fyak
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fathom
/fádam/ [cf. Cayman "Both road and rope are measured.. .by fathoms" (Doran 1954:84); Cam. fadom two yards (of cloth) CCD; OED, the length covered by the outstretched arms; a definite measure of six feet, now chiefly used in taking soundings] n. six feet; the length of two outstretched arms including the width of the body chiefly used in measuring rope or STRAW for plaiting: 1974 Five fathoms or 30 ft. of plait (Munroe 10). We use three to four fathom staff, hook the sponge, put it on the deck (Andros). (Gen.)
Tags: noun, straw work
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Last update: 2010-11-27 20:01
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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