What is the meaning of FETCH. Phrases containing FETCH
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Home. Let's pop 'round his pope and fetch him.
Buckets, cans, or pitchers carried by apprentices or children to the saloon to be filled with beer and returned to the workplace during the day. They were called "growlers" because of the grating noise when slid across the bar. Fetching the beer from the saloon in a growler was called rushing the growler, working the growler, or chasing the can.
The distance across water which a wind or waves have traveled.
Stage name of American actor Lincoln Perry, type cast as a slow, uneducated & easily frightened Black man. Derogatory term also used to suggest the toady behavior of Black civil servants.
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
In the days of sailing ships, cannon balls were often stacked in what was called a monkey, usually made of brass. When the weather got really cold the monkeys, being brass, would contract at a different rate than the iron of the cannonballs, forcing the cannon balls to fall onto the ship's deck. (A well-known, but far-fetched explanation.)
v stake a claim for something in the same way that Americans would claim “dibbs” on or “call” some item or privilege: I bagsie the front seat or Bagsie first shot on the dodgems! It’s a rather childlike sentiment; you would be less likely to hear I bagsie being Financial Director! It doesn’t seem ridiculously far-fetched that it’d be derived from “bags I,” with “bag” meaning to catch something. But hey, who can tell. [Etymologists. –ed.]
"so cool", short for "fetching"
Fetch up is slang for to vomit.
to reach a point steered for in a boat
"so cool", short for "fetching"
A fictitious entity that can be used to prank a brand-new seaman. eg. "Bloggins, go fetch me a bucket of prop wash." See also "Relative Bearing Grease " and "20 Feet of Shoreline".
Smurf is the politically correct word used to describe a despondent Communist. It was first started in Russia around 1930's. It was used to describe all those who either did not like or openly revolted against communism. (ed: this seems a bit far fetched but I'm sure someone will contradict it if it's wrong. Oddly enough however, SMURF is also an acronym for 'Socialist Men Under Red Father')
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a.
Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.
v. i.
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
v. t.
To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.
n.
The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.
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.
v. t.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
v. i.
To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.
n.
A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride.
v. t.
To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
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.
n.
The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
v. i.
To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?
n.
One wo fetches or brings.
v. t.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
v. t.
To fetch.
v. i.
To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
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