Definition of "fetch"
- verb
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go get.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh).
- noun
The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.
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.
The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die).
- adjective
Attractive, popular.
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