Definitions from Wiktionary (fetch)
▸ verb: (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
▸ verb: (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
▸ verb: (archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
▸ noun: (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
▸ noun: (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
▸ noun: The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
▸ noun: An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
▸ noun: The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
▸ noun: A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
▸ noun: (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
▸ noun: (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”).
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▸ verb: (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
▸ verb: (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
▸ verb: (archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
▸ noun: (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
▸ noun: (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
▸ noun: The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
▸ noun: An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
▸ noun: The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
▸ noun: A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
▸ noun: (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
▸ noun: (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”).
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