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An obsolete and dialectal form of vetch.
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The act of going and bringing; a reaching out after something; a drawing in as from a distance.
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The course through or over which anything is fetched or carried; hence, the reach or stretch of space between two connecting or related points; a line of progress or relation from point to point.
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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.
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The apparition of a living person; a wraith.
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When the Earl of Cornwall met the fetch of his friend
To bring; usually, to go and bring; go, get, and bring or conduct to the person who gives the command or to the place where the command is given: as, fetch a chair from the other room.
To derive; draw, as from a source.
To draw; heave: as, to fetch a groan.
To bring or draw into any desired relation or state; bring down, as game; bring to terms; cause to come or yield, or to meet one's wishes: as, money will fetch him if persuasion will not; a strong pull will fetch it.
To allure; attract; fascinate.
To bring back; bring to; revive.
To cause to come; bring.
To bring as an equivalent; procure in exchange, as a price: as, a commodity is worth what it will fetch; the last lot fetched only a small sum.
To go and take.
To bring to accomplishment; effect; take, make, or perform: as, to fetch a leap or bound; to fetch a high note in singing.
To deliver; strike; reach in striking: as, to fetch one a blow on the head.
To reach; attain to; arrive at; make: as, to fetch the cape by noon; to fetch the Downs.
To carry off.
To rear, as a child; bring up.
To cause to stop suddenly in any course; bring to a standstill. In nautical use, same as to bring up .
(d ) To come up with; overtake; catch up with.