fetch

FETCH, verb transitive 1. To go and bring, or simply to bring, that is, to bear a thing towards or to a person. We will take men to fetch victuals for the people. Judges 20:10. Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats. Genesis 27:9. In the latter passage, fetch signifies only to bring. 2. To derive; to draw, as from a source. On you noblest English, whose blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof. [In this sense, the use is neither common nor elegant.] 3. To strike at a distance. [Not used.] The conditions and improvements of weapons are the fetching afar off. 4. To bring back; to recall; to bring to any state. [Not used or vulgar.] In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon. 5. To bring or draw; as, to fetch a thing within a certain compass. 6. To make; to perform; as, to fetch a turn; to fetch a leap or bound. FETCH a compass behind them. 2 Samuel 5:23. 7. To draw; to heave; as, to fetch a sigh. 8. To reach; to attain or come to; to arrive at. We fetched the syren's isle. 9. To bring; to obtain its price. Wheat fetches only 75 cents the bushel. A commodity is worth what it will fetch To fetch out, to bring or draw out; to cause to appear. To fetch to, to restore, to revive, as from a swoon. To fetch up, to bring up; to cause to come up or forth. To fetch a pump, to pour water into it to make it draw water. FETCH, verb intransitive To move or turn; as, to fetch about. FETCH, noun 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; as a fetch of wit. Straight cast about to over-reach Th' unwary conqueror with a fetch