fetch
/fɛt͡ʃ/ noun C2- An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- An act of fetching data. · a fetch from a cache
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice. · They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
- A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
Plural fetches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him.
The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.
“Are you come to fetch me?” asked he.
But is it understandable that he should go out of his way to bring with him the most noisy weapon he could select, knowing well that it will fetch every human being in the house to the spot as quick as they can run, and that it is all odds that he will be seen before he can get across the moat?
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