fotch

Verb

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

1. (ditransitive, transitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
   • You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
2. (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
   • Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
3. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
   • to fetch headway or sternway
4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. (literary, rare, transitive) 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.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I
6. (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
   • They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.1879, William Barnes, A Witch

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