Fetch

English Meaning

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.

1. To come or go after and take or bring back: The puppy fetched the stick that we had tossed.
2. To cause to come.
3. To bring in as a price: fetched a thousand dollars at auction.
4. To interest or attract.
5. To draw in (breath); inhale.
6. To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.
7. Informal To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.
8. Nautical To arrive at; reach: fetched port after a month at sea.
9. To go after something and return with it.
10. To retrieve killed game. Used of a hunting dog.
11. To take an indirect route.
12. Nautical To hold a course.
13. Nautical To turn about; veer.
14. The act or an instance of fetching.
15. A stratagem or trick.
16. The distance over which a wind blows.
17. The distance traveled by waves with no obstruction.
18. fetch up To reach a stopping place or goal; end up: "He went down and out at the same time and fetched up on his back clear in the middle of the room” ( Madison Smart Bell).
19. fetch up To make up (lost time, for example).
20. fetch up To bring forth; produce.
21. fetch up To bring to a halt; stop.
22. Chiefly British A ghost; an apparition.
23. Chiefly British A doppelgänger.