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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FETCH, v.t.
1. To go and bring, or simply to bring, that is, to bear a thing towards or to a person.
We will take men to fetch victuals for the people.
Judges 20.
Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats. Genesis 27.
In the latter passage, fetch signifies only to bring.
2. To derive; to draw, as from a source.
On you noblest English, whose blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof.
[In this sense, the use is neither common nor elegant.]
3. To strike at a distance. [Not used.]
The conditions and improvements of weapons are the fetching afar off.
4. To bring back; to recall; to bring to any state. [Not used or vulgar.]
In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon.
5. To bring or draw; as, to fetch a thing within a certain compass.
6. To make; to perform; as, to fetch a turn; to fetch a leap or bound.
Fetch a compass behind them. 1 Samuel 5.
7. To draw; to heave; as, to fetch a sigh.
8. To reach; to attain or come to; to arrive at.
We fetched the syren's isle.
9. To bring; to obtain its price. Wheat fetches only 75 cents the bushel. A commodity is worth what it will fetch.
To fetch out, to bring or draw out; to cause to appear.
To fetch to, to restore, to revive, as from a swoon.
To fetch up, to bring up; to cause to come up or forth.
To fetch a pump, to pour water into it to make it draw water.
FETCH, v.i. To move or turn; as, to fetch about.
FETCH, n. 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; as a fetch of wit.
Straight cast about to over-reach
Th' unwary conqueror with a fetch.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the action of fetching v
1: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]
2: be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction" [syn: fetch, bring in, bring]
3: take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English fecchen, from Old English fetian, feccan; perhaps akin to Old English f?t foot — more at foot Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to go or come after and bring or take back <fetch a doctor> b. derive, deduce 2. a. to cause to come b. to bring in (as a price) ; realize c. interest, attract 3. a. to give (a blow) by striking ; deal b. chiefly dialect bring about, accomplish c. (1) to take in (as a breath) ; draw (2) to bring forth (as a sound) ; heave <fetch a sigh> 4. a. to reach by sailing especially against the wind or tide b. to arrive at ; reach intransitive verb 1. to get and bring something; specifically to retrieve killed game 2. to take a roundabout way ; circle 3. a. to hold a course on a body of water b. veer • fetcher noun II. noun Date: circa 1530 1. trick, stratagem 2. an act or instance of fetching 3. a. the distance along open water or land over which the wind blows b. the distance traversed by waves without obstruction III. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1787 doppelganger 1

NOAA Weather Glossary

The area in which ocean waves are generated by the wind. Also refers to the length of the fetch area, measured in the direction of the wind.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v.tr. 1 go for and bring back (a person or thing) (fetch a doctor). 2 be sold for; realize (a price) (fetched £10). 3 cause (blood, tears, etc.) to flow. 4 draw (breath), heave (a sigh). 5 colloq. give (a blow, slap, etc.) (usu. with recipient stated : fetched him a slap on the face). 6 excite the emotions of, delight or irritate. --n. 1 an act of fetching. 2 a dodge or trick. 3 Naut. a the distance travelled by wind or waves across open water. b the distance a vessel must sail to reach open water. Phrases and idioms: fetch and carry run backwards and forwards with things, be a mere servant. fetch up colloq. 1 arrive, come to rest. 2 vomit. Derivatives: fetcher n. Etymology: OE fecc(e)an var. of fetian, prob. rel. to a Gmc root = grasp 2. n. a person's wraith or double. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fetch Fetch (?; 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. [root] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fetch 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fetches, fetching, fetched) 1. If you fetch something or someone, you go and get them from the place where they are. Sylvia fetched a towel from the bathroom... Fetch me a glass of water... The caddie ran over to fetch something for him. = get VERB: V n, V n n, V n for n 2. If something fetches a particular sum of money, it is sold for that amount. The painting is expected to fetch between two and three million pounds. = go for VERB: V n 3. see also far-fetched, fetching

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Has generally the meaning of "to bring"; it is commonly the translation of Hebrew laqach, "to take" or "lay hold of," Hoph. "to be brought, seized or snatched away" (Ge 18:4, etc.; Ge 27:9; 42:16; 1Sa 4:3; 1Ki 17:10, etc.); twice of nasa', "to lift up" (2Ch 12:11, the American Standard Revised Version "bare"; Job 36:3); of bo', "to come in" (2Ch 1:17; Ne 8:15); of `alah, "to cause to come up" (1Sa 6:21; 7:1); of yatsa', "to cause to come out" (Nu 20:10, the American Standard Revised Version "bring forth"; Jer 26:23), and of a number of other words.

In the New Testament it is the translation of exago, "to lead out" (Ac 16:37, "Let them come themselves and fetch us out," the Revised Version (British and American) "bring"); "to fetch a compass" is the translation of cabhabh (Nu 34:5; Jos 15:3, the Revised Version (British and American) "turn," "turned about"; 2Sa 5:23, the Revised Version (British and American) "make a circuit"; 2Ki 3:9, the Revised Version (British and American) "made a circuit"); of perierchomai (aor. 2, perielthon), "to go about," "to wander up and down" (of a ship driven about; Ac 28:13, the Revised Version (British and American) "made a circuit," margin "some ancient authorities read cast loose").

The Revised Version (British and American) has "fetch" for "bring" (1Ki 3:24), for "call for" (Ac 10:5; 11:13); "fetched" for "called for" (Es 5:10), for "took out" (Jer 37:17); "fetched" for "took" (2Ch 8:18).

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Bring (when one goes for the purpose of bringing), go and bring. 2. Perform, make, effect. 3. Sell for. 4. (Naut.) Reach, attain, arrive at, come to, get to. II. n. Trick, artifice, ruse, stratagem, dodge, sharp practice.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A trick, wheedle, or invention to deceive.

Moby Thesaurus

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