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Word: fetch (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

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.
  • The apparition of a living person; a wraith.
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  • nautical To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  • To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  • To retrieve; to bear towards; to get.

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