Lexic.us

Definition of Fetch

1. Noun. The action of fetching.

2. Verb. Go or come after and bring or take back. "The dog fetched the hat"

3. Verb. Be sold for a certain price. "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"

4. Verb. Take away or remove. "The devil will fetch you!"

Definition of Fetch

1. v. t. 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.

2. v. i. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

3. n. 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.

Definition of Fetch

1. to go after and bring back [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Fetch

1. Length of water surface exposed to wind during generation of waves. (09 Oct 1997)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetch

feta fetal fetal fetal age fetal alcohol syndrome fetal circulation fetal distress fetal membrane fetal monitor fetal movement

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Literary usage of Fetch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Haste, fetch forth 270 Thy arms, and come ; together let us go ; Two men together, we may well work good ; Strength is in union, though of common men ..."

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