English
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Etymology
OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, Anglo-Saxon fæcce, perhaps the same word as fetian; or confer facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare.
Pronunciation
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Verb
en-verb|fetches|fetching|fetched, or archaic, fetcht
- To retrieve; to bear towards; to get.
- To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- nautical To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- intransitive To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Translations
trans-top| To retrieve; to bear towards; to get
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Spanish: traer
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trans-top|To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for
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Dutch: halen
French : aller chercher
German: holen
Derived terms
to fetch away
to fetch and carry <!--, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.-->
prefetching
Noun
fetch
- The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.
- a type of guardian angel, guardian spirit, totemic being or tutelary entity, which was held to follow each person or family and the relationship being affixed or bound at the process or ceremony of naming (and in this usage is conceptually cognate with fylgja).
- 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.
- The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
#: "The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp." -Dickens.
Derived terms
fetch candle <!--, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death. -->
instruction prefetch<!-- A technique which attempts to minimise the time a processor spends waiting for instructions to be fetched from memory. -->
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