To bring; usually, to go and bring; go, get, and bring or conduct to the person who gives the command or to the place where the command is given: as, fetch a chair from the other room.To derive; draw, as from a source.To draw; heave: as, to fetch a groan.To bring or draw into any desired relation or state; bring down, as game; bring to terms; cause to come or yield, or to meet one's wishes: as, money will fetch him if persuasion will not; a strong pull will fetch it.To allure; attract; fascinate.To bring back; bring to; revive.To cause to come; bring.To bring as an equivalent; procure in exchange, as a price: as, a commodity is worth what it will fetch; the last lot fetched only a small sum.To go and take.To bring to accomplishment; effect; take, make, or perform: as, to fetch a leap or bound; to fetch a high note in singing.To deliver; strike; reach in striking: as, to fetch one a blow on the head.To reach; attain to; arrive at; make: as, to fetch the cape by noon; to fetch the Downs.To carry off.To rear, as a child; bring up.To cause to stop suddenly in any course; bring to a standstill. In nautical use, same as to bring up .(d ) To come up with; overtake; catch up with.To recover.To move or turn: as, to fetch about.Nautical, to reach; attain; get.n. The act of going and bringing; a reaching out after something; a drawing in as from a distance.n. The course through or over which anything is fetched or carried; hence, the reach or stretch of space between two connecting or related points; a line of progress or relation from point to point.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.n. An obsolete and dialectal form of vetch.n. The apparition of a living person; a wraith.n. When the Earl of Cornwall met the fetch of his friend