Fetch
(Fetch) 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. &radic 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.
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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.
fetch
(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.
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