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English → English (gcide) Definition: Fetch candle Fetch \Fetch\, n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Every little fetch of wit and criticism. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith. [1913 Webster] The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] 3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves. [RDH] 4. Hence: The length of such a region. [RDH] Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death. [1913 Webster]