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fetch way

fetch way verb: to move from the proper place; to come loose.

Verb

fetch way (third-person singular simple present fetches way, present participle fetching way, simple past and past participle fetched way)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To move from the proper place; to come loose.
    • When running before the wind, she rolled so deep that almost everything fetched way, and a dismal night I passed.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 160

Forms of fetch way

third-person singular presentfetches way
present participlefetching way
past participlefetched way
pastfetched way

Questions about fetch way

What does fetch way mean?
Fetch way means to move from the proper place; to come loose.
What part of speech is fetch way?
Fetch way is a verb.
What is the past tense of fetch way?
The past tense of fetch way is fetched way.

Words near fetch way in the dictionary

  1. fetch in
  2. fetch off
  3. fetch quest
  4. fetch quests
  5. fetch up
  6. fetch way
  7. fetch-and-carries
  8. fetch-and-carry
  9. fetchable
  10. fetched
  11. fetched a compass

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