fetch: meaning and definitions

To come or go after and take or bring back: The puppy fetched the stick that we had tossed.

To cause to come.

To bring in as a price: fetched a thousand dollars at auction.

To interest or attract.

To draw in (breath); inhale.

To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.

Informal To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.

Nautical To arrive at; reach: fetched port after a month at sea.

To go after something and return with it.

To retrieve killed game. Used of a hunting dog.

To take an indirect route.

Nautical To hold a course.

Nautical To turn about; veer.

The act or an instance of fetching.

A stratagem or trick.

The distance over which a wind blows.

The distance traveled by waves with no obstruction.

fetch up To reach a stopping place or goal; end up: "He went down and out at the same time and fetched up on his back clear in the middle of the room” ( Madison Smart Bell).

fetch up To make up (lost time, for example).

fetch up To bring forth; produce.

fetch up To bring to a halt; stop.

Chiefly British A ghost; an apparition.

Chiefly British A doppelgänger.