fetch

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▶verb

• 1 go for and bring back.

• 2 achieve (a particular price) when sold.

• 3 (fetch up) informal arrive or come to rest.

• 4 informal inflict (a blow) on.

• 5 archaic bring forth (blood or tears).

  ■ take (a breath).

▶noun

• 1 the distance travelled by wind or waves across open water.

  ■ the distance a vessel must sail to reach open water.

• 2 an act of fetching.

• 3 archaic a stratagem or trick.

– phrases
fetch and carry perform a succession of menial tasks for someone.

– derivatives
fetcher noun.

– origin OE fecc(e)an, var. of fetian, prob. rel. to fatian ‘grasp’, of Gmc origin.

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fetch2

▶noun the apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death.

– origin C17: of unknown origin.