fetch

  1. Verb.  To retrieve; to bear towards; to go get.
  2. Verb.  To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  3. Verb.  (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Noun.  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).

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.