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What does fetch mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fetch? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  3. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  5. (literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
  6. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  7. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
  8. To reduce; to throw.
  9. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
  10. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
Noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (computing) The act of fetching data.
Noun
  1. 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)
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