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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.

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  1. 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.
  2. v. t. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  3. v. t. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
  4. v. t. To reduce; to throw.
  5. 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.
  6. v. t. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  7. v. t. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  8. v. i. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  9. 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.
  10. n. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
  11. n. the action of fetching
  12. v. go or come after and bring or take back