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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fetch \Fetch\ (f[e^]ch; 224), verb (used with an object) [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}, verb (used with an object)]
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. --Milton.
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. --1 Kings xvii. 11, 12.
2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. --Macaulay.
3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Fetching men again when they swoon. --Bacon.
4. To reduce; to throw.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South.
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. --Shak.
He fetches his blow quick and sure. --South.
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. --Chapman.
7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes.
{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]'' --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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
fetch \fetch\, verb (used without an object) 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 or slide to leeward.
{To fetch and carry}, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fetch \Fetch\, noun
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. --South.
2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens.
3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves. [RDH]
4. Hence: The length of such a region. [RDH]
{Fetch candle}, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fetch
verb
1: 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" [syn: {bring}, {get}, {convey}] [ant: {take away}]
2: be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction" [syn: {bring in}, {bring}]
3: take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
293 Moby Thesaurus words for "fetch": Doppelganger, accomplish, achieve, afford, amount to, appeal, approach, approach anchorage, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, art, artful dodge, artifice, attain, attain to, attract, bag of tricks, bang, bash, bat, be attractive, be received, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up for, bear up to, beckon, belt, biff, blind, blow in, bluff, bob up, bonk, bosey, bring, bring back, bring forth, bring in, call, call for, carry back, catch, chase after, check in, chicanery, chouse, clap, clip, clobber, clock in, close with, clout, clump, co-walker, coldcock, collect, come, come in, come to, come to hand, come up to, commute, compass, conclude, conspiracy, consummate, contrivance, cost, coup, course, cover ground, crack, craft, curve, curve-ball, cut, cute trick, dash, deal, deal a blow, deal with, deceit, deck, deduce, deliver, derive, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, dodge, double, doubleganger, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw forth, earn, effect, effectuate, elicit, enact, engage, etheric double, execute, expedient, extent, extract, fakement, fare, fare forth, fast deal, feint, fetch a blow, fetch and carry, fetch up at, ficelle, find, flit, flow, fulfill, gain, gambit, game, gang, gather, get, get in, get there, get to, gimmick, glean, go, go aboard, go after, go along, go alongside, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, googly, grift, hie, hit, hit a clip, hit town, hocus-pocus, induce, infer, interest, intrigue, invite, jab, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock off, knock out, lay aboard, lay for, lay in, let have it, lie in, little game, make, make at, make for, make it, manage, maneuver, mount up to, move, move along, move on, obtain, pass, paste, perform, pick up, plot, ploy, plunk, poke, polish off, pop up, procure, produce, progress, pull in, punch, punch in, put away, put away for, put in, put into port, racket, range, reach, realize, reason, reason that, red herring, retrieve, ring in, roll, roll in, roll on, run, run after, run for, run into, run to, ruse, sail for, sashay, scheme, scurvy trick, secure, sell for, set one back, shag, shift, show up, sign in, slam, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slog, slug, smack, smite, snap, soak, sock, span, stand for, steer toward, stratagem, strategy, stream, stretch, strike, strike at, subterfuge, succeed, summon, swat, swipe, tactic, take as proved, take care of, tantalize, tease, tempt, thump, thwack, tickle, time in, titillate, total up to, travel, trick, trickery, turn the trick, turn up, wallop, wayfare, wend, whack, wham, whet the appetite, whop, wile, wily device, work, work out, wraith, yerk, yield
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Fetch A {Macintosh} program by Jim Matthews for transferring files using {File Transfer Protocol} (FTP). Fetch requires a Mac 512KE, System 4.1, and either {KSP} 1.03 or {MacTCP}. Current version: 2.1.2. Fetch is Copyright 1992, Trustees of Dartmouth College. {(ftp://ftp.Dartmouth.edu/pub/mac/Fetch_2.1.2.sit.hqx)}. {(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/info-mac/comm/tcp)}. (1994-11-30)
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