fetching 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