fetch
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English fecchen, from Old English feċċan (“to fetch”), apparently an alteration of fetian, fatian (“to fetch, marry”) (whence also English fet), from Proto-Germanic *fatōnan, *fatjanan (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”). Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grasp, understand”), German fassen (“to grasp, touch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”). More at foot.
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[edit] Verb
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 go 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.
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To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
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- Dutch: halen
- French : aller chercher
- German: holen
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[edit] Noun
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.
- (Can we date this quote?) South:
- Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
- (Can we date this quote?) South:
- 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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- ... but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death. — The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays, 1921
- (Can we date this quote?) Dickens:
- The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.
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