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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: fetch n 1: the action of fetching v 1: 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}] 2: 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}] 3: take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"