meaning of fetches
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.
8. To bring ones self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
9. 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.
10. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
11. Fetch A Macintosh program by Jim Matthews
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