MARKS AND DEEPS
\mˈɑːks and dˈiːps], \mˈɑːks and dˈiːps], \m_ˈɑː_k_s a_n_d d_ˈiː_p_s]\
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(Naut.) Marks are the fathoms marked on the hand lead-line, and are placed at two, three, five, seven, ten, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, and twenty fathoms; Deeps, the fathoms between the marks. In sounding nine fathoms, the leadsman calls, " Deep nine," but at a marked fathom, as ten, he calls, ' ' Mark ten."
By Henry Percy Smith
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