Sekirov Dictionary

fetch

/fɛt͡ʃ/

verb 10
noun 8
exclamation 1
forms 6
phrases 8

verb10

•
to go somewhere for something or someone and return with them
- You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
- I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
•
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
•
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn. — 1879
•
(literary, rare) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
- The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there. — 1899
•
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle. — 1614
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
•
To reduce; to throw.
- The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. — 1692
•
(no longer used) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
- Fetching men again when they swoon. — 1627
•
(no longer used) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
- I'll fetch a turn about the garden. — 1611

noun8

An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
An act of fetching data.
•
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities. — 1977
•
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
- From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximum fetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain […] — 1983
•
(dialect) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- Several farm maidservants meet to see their future lovers' spirits on Midsummer Eve, but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death. — 1921
•
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

exclamation1

(euphemistic) Minced oath for fuck.

forms

fetched · fotch · fetching · fetches · fetcheth · fetchest

Phrases with fetch

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome