Definition of fetch

• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
• v. t. - To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
• v. t. - To reduce; to throw.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
• v. t. - To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
• v. i. - To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
• n. - 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.
• n. - The apparation of a living person; a wraith.