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Webster's English Dictionary

fetch

v. t. [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 bread 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 circuit; to take a circuitous 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 To fetch 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. ()

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 or slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel. ()

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.)

3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves. ()

4. The length of such a region. ()

Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death. ()