fetch and carry
To serve obsequiously.
It was curious to ſee what heavy burthens your true court-bred ladies and gentlemen can bear in the ſervice of their prince, aye and bear ſmilingly. […] [L]ike that enduring animal
verb
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?
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.
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.
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
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
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
a fetch from a cache
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
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.
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
Minced oath for fuck.