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Fetching   /fˈɛtʃɪŋ/   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.


adjective
fetching  adj.  Drawing favorable attention; as, a fetching new hat.
Synonyms: appealing, taking, winning.





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"Fetching" Quotes from Famous Books



... write at lunch and then only occasionally. The cold is intense, -40 deg. at mid-day. My companions are unendingly cheerful, but we are all on the verge of serious frost-bites, and though we constantly talk of fetching through I don't think anyone of us believes ...
— The Voyages of Captain Scott - Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's - Last Expedition' • Charles Turley
... had located his family on the Ohio, my mother was, whilst in the act of fetching water from the stream a little way outside the stockade within which our dwelling stood, startled by the near whoop of an Indian warrior, and, on raising her head, perceived close beside her a chief of the neighbouring tribe; she instantly fled like a deer; and, ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power
... say anything about fetching the deer across a deep river without a boat, did he?" Mr. Wright asked me with ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... anxiety to "act on Brooke," once brought close to his constant belief in Dorothea's capacity for influence, became formative, and issued in a little plan; namely, to plead Celia's indisposition as a reason for fetching Dorothea by herself to the Hall, and to leave her at the Grange with the carriage on the way, after making her fully aware of the situation concerning the ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... His eye rapidly grasped details. The gates of the fort were widely open; women were outside, milking cows; men were chopping wood in the timber; children were fetching water, and playing about, even straying almost beyond call. No guards were posted, on the look-out. The logs of the defences had sagged by weather—some appeared to have rotted. One of the double gates, swung inward, hung crookedly. ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin


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