Fathom of fuelwood

[Shawn W Miller]

	Last month I posted the question: Does anyone know what a fathom of
fuelwood is in cubic meters?--to which I got a few responses.  I finally got to
the Oxford English Dictionary, and here is the answer, for any who care.

	A fathom is any volume of firewood 6 feet (1 fathom) wide by 6 feet
high, no matter the length of the fuel.  One source quoted therein states the
average length at 2 feet.  That would make the fathom about 2.35 cubic meters.