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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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