{To fetch away} (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to
leeward.
{To fetch and carry}, to serve obsequiously, like a trained
spaniel.
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 bred 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.
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 sircuit; to take a
circuitious 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 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.
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.
{Fetch candle}, a light seen at night, superstitiously
believed to portend a person's death.