Fetch \Fetch\ (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fetching.]

[OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. [root] 77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]

1. 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.

Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. --Milton.

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in thine hand. --1 Kings xvii. 11, 12.

2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. --Macaulay.

3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

Fetching men again when they swoon. --Bacon.

4. To reduce; to throw.

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South.

5. 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.

I'll fetch a turn about the garden. --Shak.

He fetches his blow quick and sure. --South.

6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. --Chapman.

7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes.

To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place.

To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

To fetch headway or sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern.

To fetch out, to develop. ``The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]'' --Addison.

To fetch up.
   (a) To overtake. [Obs.]

``Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.'' --L'Estrange.
   (b) To stop suddenly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)