- To fetch headway
- 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. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
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. --1 Kings xvii. 11, 12. [1913 Webster]
2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. [1913 Webster]
Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. [1913 Webster]
Fetching men again when they swoon. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
4. To reduce; to throw. [1913 Webster]
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
I'll fetch a turn about the garden. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
He fetches his blow quick and sure. --South. [1913 Webster]
6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. [1913 Webster]
Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. [1913 Webster]
They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes. [1913 Webster]
{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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
