fetch
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English feċċan, apparently an alteration of fetian ( > English fet).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
to fetch (third-person singular simple present fetches, present participle fetching, simple past and past participle fetched, or (archaic) fetcht)
- To retrieve; to bear towards; to get.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $ 5.000
- (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- (intransitive) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
[edit] Translations
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
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- Dutch: halen
- French : aller chercher
- German: holen
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Noun
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fetch (plural fetches)
- 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.
- "Every little fetch of wit and criticism." -South.
- The apparition of a living person; a wraith.
- "The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp." -Dickens.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) a type of guardian angel, guardian spirit, totemic being or tutelary entity, which was held to follow each person or family and the relationship being affixed or bound at the process or ceremony of naming (and in this usage is conceptually cognate with fylgja).
