Fetch
Fetch (fech; 224) , transitive verb
[Old English fecchen, Anglo-Saxon feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or compare facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. r77. Compare Fet, transitive verb]
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.
Collocations (5)
To fetch a compass (Nautical) , 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 (Nautical) , 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. [Obsolete] Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please. (b) To stop suddenly.
fetch , intransitive verb
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. — Totten
Collocations (2)
To fetch away (Nautical) , to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward.
To fetch and carry , to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.
Fetch , noun
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.
The length of such a region.
Collocations (1)
Fetch candle , a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.