Definitions for the word "fetch" from multiple English dictionaries.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To reduce; to throw.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
1 go for and bring back (fetch a doctor). 2 be sold for (a price) (fetched £10). 3 cause (blood, tears, etc.) To flow. 4 draw (breath), heave (a sigh). 5 colloq. Give (a blow etc.) (fetched him a slap). n.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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