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English → English (gcide) Definition: To fetch a pump Fetch \Fetch\ (f[e^]ch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fetching.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. [root]77. Cf. Fet, v. t.] 1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. [1913 Webster] Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster] He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. --1 Kings xvii. 11, 12. [1913 Webster] 2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. [1913 Webster] Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. [1913 Webster] Fetching men again when they swoon. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 4. To reduce; to throw. [1913 Webster] The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster] I'll fetch a turn about the garden. --Shak. [1913 Webster] He fetches his blow quick and sure. --South. [1913 Webster] 6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. [1913 Webster] Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. [1913 Webster] They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes. [1913 Webster] To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a circuit; to take a circuitous route going to a place. To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. To fetch headway or To fetch sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern. To fetch out, to develop. ``The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]'' --Addison. To fetch up. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] ``Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.'' --L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly. [1913 Webster]