Fetch

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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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