fetch

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  Gone to fetch
• WordNet 3.6
  • v fetch 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"
  • v fetch take away or remove "The devil will fetch you!"
  • v fetch be sold for a certain price "The painting brought $10,000","The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
  • n fetch the action of fetching
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ENID FETCHED THE WINE AND THE MEAT AND THE CAKES

• Interesting fact: Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water
• • Fetch 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."
  • Fetch The apparation of a living person; a wraith. "The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp."
  • Fetch The length of such a region.
  • Fetch The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves.
  • Fetch 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."
  • v. i fetch To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  • Fetch 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."
  • Fetch 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."
  • Fetch To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. "They could n't fetch the butter in the churn."
  • Fetch To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. "Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices."
  • Fetch To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. "Fetching men again when they swoon."
  • Fetch To reduce; to throw. "The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground."
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• • fetch To bring; usually, to go and bring; go, get, and bring or conduct to the person who gives the command or to the place where the command is given: as, fetch a chair from the other room.
  • fetch To derive; draw, as from a source.
  • fetch To draw; heave: as, to fetch a groan.
  • fetch To bring or draw into any desired relation or state; bring down, as game; bring to terms; cause to come or yield, or to meet one's wishes: as, money will fetch him if persuasion will not; a strong pull will fetch it.
  • fetch To allure; attract; fascinate.
  • fetch To bring back; bring to; revive.
  • fetch To cause to come; bring.
  • fetch To bring as an equivalent; procure in exchange, as a price: as, a commodity is worth what it will fetch; the last lot fetched only a small sum.
  • fetch To go and take.
  • fetch To bring to accomplishment; effect; take, make, or perform: as, to fetch a leap or bound; to fetch a high note in singing.
  • fetch To deliver; strike; reach in striking: as, to fetch one a blow on the head.
  • fetch To reach; attain to; arrive at; make: as, to fetch the cape by noon; to fetch the Downs.
  • fetch To carry off.
  • fetch To rear, as a child; bring up.
  • fetch To cause to stop suddenly in any course; bring to a standstill. In nautical use, same as to bring up .
  • fetch (d ) To come up with; overtake; catch up with.
  • fetch To recover.
  • fetch To move or turn: as, to fetch about.
  • fetch Nautical, to reach; attain; get.
  • n fetch The act of going and bringing; a reaching out after something; a drawing in as from a distance.
  • n fetch The course through or over which anything is fetched or carried; hence, the reach or stretch of space between two connecting or related points; a line of progress or relation from point to point.
  • n fetch 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 fetch An obsolete and dialectal form of vetch.
  • n fetch The apparition of a living person; a wraith.
  • n fetch When the Earl of Cornwall met the fetch of his friend
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• • v.t Fetch fech to bring: to go and get: to obtain as its price: to accomplish in any way: to bring down, to cause to yield: to reach or attain
  • v.i Fetch to turn:
  • n Fetch the act of bringing: space carried over: a stratagem
  • n Fetch fech the apparition, double, or wraith of a living person
  • v.i Fetch (naut.) to arrive at
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• Groucho Marx

  

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

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