fetch

UK /fɛt͡ʃ/ US /fɛt͡ʃ/
noun 6verb 5intj 1

Definitions

verb

1

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.

I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?

2

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

3

To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

to fetch headway or sternway

Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.

4

To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

5

To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).

The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.

noun

1

An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

2

An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

a fetch from a cache

3

The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

4

An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.

When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.

5

The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).

From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximum fetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain […]

For example, a steady wind of 40-50 kilometres/hour - a Force 6 strong breeze - blowing for 12 hours over an initially calm sea and traversing a fetch of 1000 kilometres could produce a significant wave height […]

intj

1

Minced oath for fuck.

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