fetch

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To retrieve

   To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

   • You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
   • I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
   • SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
2. 2

   To obtain as price or equivalent

   To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

   • Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
3. 3

   To bring or get within reach by going

   To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

   • to fetch headway or sternway
   • Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
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   1. 4

      To bring oneself

      To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

   2. 5

      To take (a breath)

      To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).

      • The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
   3. 6

      To cause to come

      To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

      • They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
   4. 7

      To recall from a swoon

      To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.

      • to fetch a man to
      • Fetching men again when they swoon.
   5. 8

      To reduce

      To reduce; to throw.

      • The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
   6. 9

      To accomplish

      To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.

      • to fetch a compass;  to fetch a leap
      • I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
      • Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes
   7. 10

      To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

   8. 11

      An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

   9. 12

      The object of fetching

      The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

   10. 13

       An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.

       • When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.
   11. 14

       The length of such an area

       The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).

       • From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximum fetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain […]
       • For example, a steady wind of 40-50 kilometres/hour - a Force 6 strong breeze - blowing for 12 hours over an initially calm sea and traversing a fetch of 1000 kilometres could produce a significant wave height […]
   12. 15

       A stratagem or trick

       A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

       • They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
       • Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
       • And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of your fetches to avoid complying with your duty […].
   13. 16

       A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.

   14. 17

       Minced oath for fuck.

   15. 18

       The apparition of a living person

       The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

       • Several farm maidservants meet to see their future lovers' spirits on Midsummer Eve, but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death.

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