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.
South. 2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
The very fetch and ghost of Mrs.
Gamp.
Dickens. Fetch
candle, a light seen at
night, superstitiously believed to portend a
person's death.
fetch , v. i. To bring one's self; to make
headway; to veer; as, to
fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Totten.
To fetch away (Naut.),
to break loose; to roll slide to
leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.
Fetch (f&ebreve;ch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2; p. pr. & vb. n..
Fetching.]
[OE. fecchen, AS.
feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get,
OFries. faka to prepare. √ 77. Cf. Fet, v. t.] 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.
Milton. 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 bred in thine
hand.
1 Kings xvii. 11, 12.
2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
Our native
horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
Macaulay.
3. To recall from a
swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man
to.
Fetching men again when they swoon.
Bacon. 4. To reduce; to
throw.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches
a man to the ground.
South. 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.
Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure.
South. 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.
Chapman. 7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
They could n't fetch
the butter in the churn.
W.
Barnes. To fetch
a compass (Naut.),
to make a
sircuit; to take a circuitious 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 sternway (Naut.),
to move ahead or astern. -- To fetch out, to develop. "The skill of
the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]" Addison. --
To fetch up. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] "Says
[the hare], I
can fetch up the tortoise when I please." L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.
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