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 for fetch
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  fetch \fetch\, v. i.
     To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch
     about; to fetch to windward. --Totten.
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     To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll or slide to
     To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fetch \Fetch\ (f[e^]ch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2;
     p. pr. & vb. n.. Fetching.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh.
     the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get,
     OFries. faka to prepare. [root]77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]
     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.
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              Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
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              He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a
              she was going to fetch it he called to her, and
              thine hand.                           --1 Kings
                                                    xvii. 11, 12.
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     2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
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              Our native horses were held in small esteem, and
              fetched low prices.                   --Macaulay.
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     3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to;
        as, to fetch a man to.
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              Fetching men again when they swoon.   --Bacon.
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     4. To reduce; to throw.
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              The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to
              the ground.                           --South.
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     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.
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              I'll fetch a turn about the garden.   --Shak.
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              He fetches his blow quick and sure.   --South.
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     6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive
        at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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              Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched
              The siren's isle.                     --Chapman.
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     7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
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              They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W.
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     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]" --Addison.
     To fetch up.
        (a) To overtake. [Obs.] "Says [the hare], I can fetch up
            the tortoise when I please." --L'Estrange.
        (b) To stop suddenly.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fetch \Fetch\, n.
     1. 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.
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              Every little fetch of wit and criticism. --South.
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     2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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              The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens.
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     3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind
        blows to generate waves.
     4. Hence: The length of such a region.
     Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously
        believed to portend a person's death.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

      n 1: the action of fetching
      v 1: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those
           "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey,
           fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away,
           carry off, take away]
      2: be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000";
         fetch, bring in, bring]
      3: take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  293 Moby Thesaurus words for "fetch":
     Doppelganger, accomplish, achieve, afford, amount to, appeal,
     approach, approach anchorage, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, art,
     artful dodge, artifice, attain, attain to, attract, bag of tricks,
     bang, bash, bat, be attractive, be received, bear down on,
     bear down upon, bear up for, bear up to, beckon, belt, biff, blind,
     blow in, bluff, bob up, bonk, bosey, bring, bring back,
     bring forth, bring in, call, call for, carry back, catch,
     chase after, check in, chicanery, chouse, clap, clip, clobber,
     clock in, close with, clout, clump, co-walker, coldcock, collect,
     come, come in, come to, come to hand, come up to, commute, compass,
     conclude, conspiracy, consummate, contrivance, cost, coup, course,
     cover ground, crack, craft, curve, curve-ball, cut, cute trick,
     dash, deal, deal a blow, deal with, deceit, deck, deduce, deliver,
     derive, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, discharge,
     dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, dodge, double,
     doubleganger, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw forth,
     earn, effect, effectuate, elicit, enact, engage, etheric double,
     execute, expedient, extent, extract, fakement, fare, fare forth,
     fast deal, feint, fetch a blow, fetch and carry, fetch up at,
     ficelle, find, flit, flow, fulfill, gain, gambit, game, gang,
     gather, get, get in, get there, get to, gimmick, glean, go,
     go aboard, go after, go along, go alongside, go and get, go fetch,
     go for, go get, go to get, googly, grift, hie, hit, hit a clip,
     hit town, hocus-pocus, induce, infer, interest, intrigue, invite,
     jab, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, knock, knock cold,
     knock down, knock off, knock out, lay aboard, lay for, lay in,
     let have it, lie in, little game, make, make at, make for, make it,
     manage, maneuver, mount up to, move, move along, move on, obtain,
     pass, paste, perform, pick up, plot, ploy, plunk, poke, polish off,
     pop up, procure, produce, progress, pull in, punch, punch in,
     put away, put away for, put in, put into port, racket, range,
     reach, realize, reason, reason that, red herring, retrieve,
     ring in, roll, roll in, roll on, run, run after, run for, run into,
     run to, ruse, sail for, sashay, scheme, scurvy trick, secure,
     sell for, set one back, shag, shift, show up, sign in, slam,
     sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slog, slug, smack,
     smite, snap, soak, sock, span, stand for, steer toward, stratagem,
     strategy, stream, stretch, strike, strike at, subterfuge, succeed,
     summon, swat, swipe, tactic, take as proved, take care of,
     tantalize, tease, tempt, thump, thwack, tickle, time in, titillate,
     total up to, travel, trick, trickery, turn the trick, turn up,
     wallop, wayfare, wend, whack, wham, whet the appetite, whop, wile,
     wily device, work, work out, wraith, yerk, yield


     A Macintosh program by Jim Matthews 
     for transferring files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
     Fetch requires a Mac 512KE, System 4.1, and either KSP 1.03
     or MacTCP.
     Latest version: 2.1.2.
     Fetch is Copyright 1992, Trustees of Dartmouth College.

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