1. Verb
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.
2. Verb
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
3. Verb
To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
4. Verb
To reduce; to throw.
5. Verb
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. Verb
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
7. Verb
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
8. Verb
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
9. Noun
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.
10. Noun
The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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