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fetches way

fetches way is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch way.

Meaning of fetch way

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

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What is fetches way the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fetches way is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch way.

Words near fetches way in the dictionary

  1. fetches and carries
  2. fetches away
  3. fetches in
  4. fetches off
  5. fetches up
  6. fetches way
  7. fetchest
  8. fetcheth
  9. fetchin'
  10. fetching
  11. fetching a compass

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