Fetch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

II. Fetch ·vt To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

III. Fetch ·vt To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

IV. Fetch ·vt To Reduce; to Throw.

V. Fetch ·vt To recall from a swoon; to Revive;

— sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

VI. Fetch ·vi To bring one's self; to make headway; to Veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

VII. Fetch ·vt To bring or get within reach by going; to Reach; to arrive at; to Attain; to reach by sailing.

VIII. Fetch ·vt 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.

IX. Fetch ·noun 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.

X. Fetch ·vt 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.