1. [v]  go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"
2. [v]  take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"
3. [v]  be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"

1. \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.
   

2. \fetch\, v. i.
   To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch
   about; to fetch to windward. --Totten.
   {To fetch away} (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to
      leeward.
   {To fetch and carry}, to serve obsequiously, like a trained
      spaniel.
   

3. \Fetch\, n.
   1. 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.
   2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
            The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens.
   {Fetch candle}, a light seen at night, superstitiously
      believed to portend a person's death.
   

A Macintosh program by Jim Matthews <[email protected]> for transferring files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Fetch requires a Mac 512KE, System 4.1, and either KSP 1.03 or MacTCP.

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