fetch
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.Examples: "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?"; "SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred."ditransitivetransitive
2. (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.Examples: "Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices."; "My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price."; "The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices)."transitive
3. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.Examples: "to fetch headway or sternway"; "Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle."
4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.intransitive
5. (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).Examples: "The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there."literaryraretransitive
6. (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.Examples: "They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn."transitive
noun (English)
1. (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.alsofiguratively
2. (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.Examples: "a fetch from a cache"alsofigurativelyspecifically
3. (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.uncountable
intj (English)
1. (Utah) Minced oath for fuck.
noun (English)
1. (originally Ireland, dialectal) 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”).Examples: "In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn."; "I think it was a fetch. [...] Folk say a fetch is seen at its departing / From a cold house whence it shall lead a soul; / But this comes like a child-birth closing in, / And so perchance it does but signify / The consciousness of death that breaks in all."; "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."dialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary