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   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. √77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]
   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.
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   Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
   Milton.
   
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   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.
   
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   To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
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   Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
   Macaulay.
   
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   To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
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   Fetching men again when they swoon.
   Bacon.
   
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   To reduce; to throw.
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   The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
   South.
   
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   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.
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   I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
   Shak.
   
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   He fetches his blow quick and sure.
   South.
   
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   To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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   Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched
   The siren's isle.
   Chapman.
   
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   To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
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   They could n't fetch the butter in the churn.
   W. Barnes.
   
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   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.
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   fetch, v. i. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
   Totten.
   
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   To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.
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   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.
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   Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
   South.
   
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   The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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   The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.
   Dickens.
   
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   The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves.
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   Hence: The length of such a region.
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   Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.
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