fetch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To come or go after and take or bring back: The puppy fetched the stick that we had tossed.
2. v. To cause to come.
3. v. To bring in as a price: fetched a thousand dollars at auction.
4. v. To interest or attract.
5. v. To draw in (breath); inhale.
6. v. To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.
7. v. Informal To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.
8. v. Nautical To arrive at; reach: fetched port after a month at sea.
9. v. To go after something and return with it.
10. v. To retrieve killed game. Used of a hunting dog.
11. v. To take an indirect route.
12. v. Nautical To hold a course.
13. v. Nautical To turn about; veer.
14. n. The act or an instance of fetching.
15. n. A stratagem or trick.
16. n. The distance over which a wind blows.
17. n. 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. n. Chiefly British A ghost; an apparition.
23. n. Chiefly British A doppelgänger.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bring; usually, to go and bring; go, get, and bring or conduct to the person who gives the command or to the place where the command is given: as, fetch a chair from the other room.
2. To derive; draw, as from a source.
3. To draw; heave: as, to fetch a groan.
4. To bring or draw into any desired relation or state; bring down, as game; bring to terms; cause to come or yield, or to meet one's wishes: as, money will fetch him if persuasion will not; a strong pull will fetch it.
5. To allure; attract; fascinate.
6. To bring back; bring to; revive.
7. To cause to come; bring.
8. To bring as an equivalent; procure in exchange, as a price: as, a commodity is worth what it will fetch; the last lot fetched only a small sum.
9. To go and take.
10. To bring to accomplishment; effect; take, make, or perform: as, to fetch a leap or bound; to fetch a high note in singing.
11. To deliver; strike; reach in striking: as, to fetch one a blow on the head.
12. To reach; attain to; arrive at; make: as, to fetch the cape by noon; to fetch the Downs.
13. To carry off.
14. To rear, as a child; bring up.
15. To cause to stop suddenly in any course; bring to a standstill. In nautical use, same as to bring up .
16. (d ) To come up with; overtake; catch up with.
17. To recover.
18. To move or turn: as, to fetch about.
19. Nautical, to reach; attain; get.
20. n. The act of going and bringing; a reaching out after something; a drawing in as from a distance.
21. n. The course through or over which anything is fetched or carried; hence, the reach or stretch of space between two connecting or related points; a line of progress or relation from point to point.
22. n. 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.
23. n. An obsolete and dialectal form of vetch.
24. n. The apparition of a living person; a wraith.
25. n. When the Earl of Cornwall met the fetch of his friend

Wiktionary

1. v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go get.
2. v. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
3. v. nautical To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
4. v. intransitive To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. v. rare, literary To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
6. n. 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.
7. n. 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.
8. n. The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die)
9. adj. slang attractive, popular

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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. v. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
3. v. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to.
4. v. To reduce; to throw.
5. v. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects
6. v. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
7. v. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
8. v. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer
9. n. 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. n. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
11. n. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves.
12. n. The length of such a region.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the action of fetching
2. v. go or come after and bring or take back
3. v. be sold for a certain price
4. v. take away or remove