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To fetch something is to go and get it. "Go fetch!" you might shout after your dog while throwing a stick into the yard.

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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.

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"

Verb
take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"

Verb
be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"

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.

v. t.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

v. t.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

v. t.
To reduce; to throw.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

v. t.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

v. i.
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

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.

n.
The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

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.

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.

2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

Fetching men again when they swoon.

4. To reduce; to throw.

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

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.

He fetches his blow quick and sure.

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.

7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

They could n't fetch the butter in the churn.

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 ∨ 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.

fetch

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

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.

Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.

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

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.

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

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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Usage Examples

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.