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Definitions for: Fetch
[v] 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"
[v] take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"
[v] be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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, 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.
Synonyms: bring, bring, bring in, convey, get
Antonyms: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away
See Also: change hands, channel, channelise, channelize, come, come up, deliver, retrieve, transfer, transmit, transport
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