Fetch

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.
2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
4. To reduce; to throw.
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.
6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
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.
To fetch up
1. To overtake.
2. To stop suddenly.

1. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
   
To fetch away (Naut.),
to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward.
To fetch and carry ,
to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.

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.
2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves.
Fetch candle ,
a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.