DEFINITION
FETCH:
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
• (v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to;
as, to fetch a man to.
• (v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to
arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
• (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
• (v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to
fetch about; to fetch to windward.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.