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. 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 bread in thine hand. - 1 Kings xvii. 11, 12. |
| 2. | To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. |
| 3. | To recall from a swoon; to revive; - sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. |
| 4. | To reduce; to throw. |
| 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. |
| 6. | To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. |
| 7. | To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. |
v. i. | 1. | To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. |
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. |
| 2. | The apparation of a living person; a wraith. |
| 3. | The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves. |
| 4. | The length of such a region. |