'Fetch' definitions:

Definition of 'fetch'

From: WordNet
noun
The action of fetching
verb
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]
verb
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]
verb
Take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"

Definition of 'Fetch'

From: GCIDE
  • Fetch \Fetch\ (f[e^]ch; 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. [1913 Webster]
  • Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. [1913 Webster]
  • Fetching men again when they swoon. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To reduce; to throw. [1913 Webster]
  • The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I'll fetch a turn about the garden. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • He fetches his blow quick and sure. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. [1913 Webster]
  • Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. [1913 Webster]
  • They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Fetch'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Every little fetch of wit and criticism. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith. [1913 Webster]
  • The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves. [RDH]
  • 4. Hence: The length of such a region. [RDH]
  • Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'fetch'

From: GCIDE
  • fetch \fetch\, v. i. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
  • To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward.
  • To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'fetch'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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