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Uncommonfetch
The correct spelling is fetch.
How to pronounce fetch
/fɛtʃ/
nounIPA: /fɛtʃ/
Say it like: Fec-h
The correct spelling is fetch. An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. For example: "If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000"
Usage Examples
“If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000”
“to fetch headway or sternway”
“to fetch a man to”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- 2.The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- 3.A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- 4.(originally Ireland) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith.
verb
- 1.To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- 2.To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- 3.To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- 4.To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- 5.To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
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