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Fetching   /fˈɛtʃɪŋ/   Listen
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.


fetch  v. i.  To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward.
To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.


adjective
fetching  adj.  Drawing favorable attention; as, a fetching new hat.
Synonyms: appealing, taking, winning.





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"Fetching" Quotes from Famous Books



... with great cheerfulness, and said he had a pressing errand with him. The king took his greeting well, and said he had had a thoroughly clear news as to what his errand must be, "and that matter will be easily settled by you." Kjartan begged they should not delay fetching the water, and said that a great deal would be needed. The king answered and smiled. "Yes, Kjartan," says he, "on this matter I do not think your eager-mindedness would part us, not even if you put the price higher still." After that Kjartan and Bolli ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous
... the light, and Miss Landale's eyes had wept so many tears by day and night that her sight was none of the best. She dropped a very elegant curtsey, simpered, drew nearer, and threw a fetching glance upwards. Then her shrill scream rang through the still morning air and frightened the ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... Well, you just chalk out a place the size of a blanket anywhere on the tin that ain't already marked off, you know, and that's your property. You and your bed-mate take turnabout carrying up the blanket and pillows and fetching them down again; or one carries them up and the other fetches them down, you fix it the way you like, you know. You'll like the boys, they're everlasting sociable—except the printer. He's the one that sleeps in that single ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... "Well," exclaimed Austin, fetching a deep breath, "of course if a man has to do this sort of thing for a living—if it's his only way of making money—I don't think I despise him so much. But if he does it because he loves it, loves it better than any other earthly thing, then I despise him with all my heart and soul. ...
— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour
... time is taken to consider it, carries one triumphantly over the roughest places of inconsistency. It is easy to drink our champagne from tin cans, when we know that it is merely a sense of hurry that prevents us fetching the chased silver ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead


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