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verb

Fetch v. t. (past & past part. fetched; pres. part. fetching)

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 bread 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 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)"

To fetch up.

(a)

To overtake. (Obs.) "Says (the hare), I can fetch up the tortoise when I please."

(b)

To stop suddenly.

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Etymology of 'Fetch up'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fetch up" Quotes from Famous Books

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... miles from Brice's Cross Roads and there was skirmishing with them. General Forrest ordered Lyon to press forward with his brigade. A courier hastening back to the artillery said: 'General Forrest says, 'Tell Captain Morton to fetch up the artillery at a gallop.' Lyon in the meantime had reached the enemy's outposts, dismounted his brigade and thrown it into line and had warmly opposed a strong line of infantry or dismounted cavalry, which, after ...

— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson

... time is coming when we shall fetch up the leeway of our vessel. The changes in your House, I see, are going on for the better, and even the Augean herd over your heads are slowly purging off their impurities. Hold on then, my dear friend, that we may not shipwreck in the mean while. I do not ...

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... derrick was rocking to the mad gyrations of the bull wheel; the giant spool was spinning with a speed that threatened to send it flying, like the fragments of a bursting bomb, but the youth understood dimly the danger of stopping it too suddenly—to fetch up that plunging weight at the cable end might snap the line, collapse the derrick, "jim" the well. Buddy weaved dizzily in his tracks; nevertheless, his hand was steady, and he applied a gradually increasing ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

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