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/fɛtʃ əp/ Listen

verb

Fetch v. t. (past & past part. fetched; pres. part. fetching)

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. "Time will run back and fetch the age of gold." "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."

2.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. "Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices."

3.

To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. "Fetching men again when they swoon."

4.

To reduce; to throw. "The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground."

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. "I'll fetch a turn about the garden." "He fetches his blow quick and sure."

6.

To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. "Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle."

7.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. "They could n't fetch the butter in the churn."

To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a circuit; to take a circuitous route going to a place.

To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

To fetch headway or To fetch sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern.

To fetch out, to develop. "The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors (of marble)"

To fetch up.

(a)

To overtake. (Obs.) "Says (the hare), I can fetch up the tortoise when I please."

(b)

To stop suddenly.

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Etymology of 'Fetch up'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fetch up" Quotes from Famous Books

... of course he could get out any time he liked. It's only a latch on the door; any one can open it from inside. He could easily get down to the river in the night, and have a tub, and fetch up some water." ...

— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed

... me, and let me be thy companion and playmate, and sit at thy table, and eat from thy little golden plate, and drink out of thy cup, and sleep in thy little bed,—if thou wilt promise me all these things, then I will dive down and fetch up ...

— Grimm's Fairy Stories • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

... he could scarcely have hoped. His guns, feeble at a distance, could tell with the greatest effect at such short range; and even if his enemy dropped an anchor, in the great depths of Valparaiso Bay he would not fetch up till far past the Essex. Until then he was for the moment helpless. Porter hailed that if the ships touched he should at once attack. Hillyar kept his presence of mind admirably at this critical juncture, replying in an indifferent manner that he had no intention of allowing the Phoebe ...

— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan

... other of the Universities. Their vacation, too, at this time of the year, falls in so pat with ours. Here I can take my walks unmolested, and fancy myself of what degree or standing I please. I seem admitted ad eundem. I fetch up past opportunities. I can rise at the chapel-bell, and dream that it rings for me. In moods of humility I can be a Sizar, or a Servitor. When the peacock vein rises, I strut a Gentleman Commoner. In graver moments, I proceed Master of Arts. Indeed I do not think I am much ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... it was," she said. "I am in the habit of going down many times a day to fetch up water for the garden, and I always keep a lookout for these creatures before I fill my jar; but yesterday I had just gone round the corner of the sandhill when I was struck down with a tremendous blow, and a moment afterward the creature seized me. I gave a scream; ...

— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty

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