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Fetch
King James Dictionary
or FETCH,
1. To go and bring, or simply to bring, that is, to bear a thing towards or to a person.
We will take men to fetch victuals for the people.
Judges 20 .
Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats. Genesis 27 .
In the latter passage, fetch signifies only to bring.
2. To derive to draw, as from a source.
On you noblest English, whose blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof.
In this sense, the use is neither common nor elegant.
3. To strike at a distance. Not used.
The conditions and improvements of weapons are the fetching afar off.
4. To bring back to recall to bring to any state. Not used or vulgar.
In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon.
5. To bring or draw as, to fetch a thing within a certain compass.
6. To make to perform as, to fetch a turn to fetch a leap or bound.
Fetch a compass behind them. 2 Samuel 5 .
7. To draw to heave as, to fetch a sigh.
8. To reach to attain or come to to arrive at.
We fetched the syren's isle.
9. To bring to obtain its price. Wheat fetches only 75 cents the bushel. A commodity is worth what it will fetch.
To fetch out, to bring or draw out to cause to appear.
To fetch to, to restore, to revive, as from a swoon.
To fetch up, to bring up to cause to come up or forth.
To fetch a pump, to pour water into it to make it draw water.
FETCH, To move or turn as, to fetch about.
FETCH, 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 as a fetch of wit.
Straight cast about to over-reach
Th' unwary conqueror with a fetch.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Fetch'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fetch.html.
