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Fetch   /fɛtʃ/   Listen
verb
Fetch  v. t.  (past & past part. fetched; pres. part. fetching)  
1.
To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. "Time will run back and fetch the age of gold." "He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand."
2.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. "Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices."
3.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. "Fetching men again when they swoon."
4.
To reduce; to throw. "The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground."
5.
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh. "I'll fetch a turn about the garden." "He fetches his blow quick and sure."
6.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. "Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle."
7.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. "They could n't fetch the butter in the churn."
To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a circuit; to take a circuitous route going to a place.
To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
To fetch headway or To fetch sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern.
To fetch out, to develop. "The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors (of marble)"
To fetch up.
(a)
To overtake. (Obs.) "Says (the hare), I can fetch up the tortoise when I please."
(b)
To stop suddenly.


fetch  v. i.  To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward.
To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.


noun
Fetch  n.  
1.
A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. "Every little fetch of wit and criticism."
2.
The apparation of a living person; a wraith. "The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp."
3.
The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves.
4.
Hence: The length of such a region.
Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.





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"Fetch" Quotes from Famous Books



... and I ken o' them that hae gotten raisins frae Lunnon by forpits at ance," responded Plumdamas; "and then sic an host of idle English gaugers and excisemen as hae come down to vex and torment us, that an honest man canna fetch sae muckle as a bit anker o' brandy frae Leith to the Lawnmarket, but he's like to be rubbit o' the very gudes he's bought and paid for.—Weel, I winna justify Andrew Wilson for pitting hands on what wasna his; but if he ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... to London had this consequence, chilling to a person who had had a vision of sociability in a railway-carriage, that most of the company, after breakfast, drove back to town, entering their own vehicles, which had come out to fetch them, while their servants returned by train with their luggage. Three or four young men, among whom was Paul Overt, also availed themselves of the common convenience; but they stood in the portico of the house and saw the others roll away. Miss Fancourt got into a victoria with ...
— The Lesson of the Master • Henry James
... non-commissioned officer proposed to a refugee, a Mme. Z., that she should sleep with him; she refused. M. X., to save her from the designs of which she was the object, sent her to his farm, which was in the neighborhood. The German ran there to fetch her, dragged her back to the chateau and led her to the attic; then, having completely undressed her, he tried to violate her. At this moment M. X., wishing to protect her, fired revolver shots on the ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... lost my way, I guess, there was so many turnin's, I'm sorry, but a little rain will fetch it right," grandpa said, glancing ruefully at the ruts in the gravel and ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes
... the Russian, going on sixteen, buxom, bright, capable, and well educated, could not escape the eye of the shadchan. A fine thing it would be to let such a likely girl grow old over a book! To the canopy with her, while she could fetch the highest ...
— The Promised Land • Mary Antin


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