fetches

We have found lemma(root) word of fetches : fetch.

Definitions


[fɛtʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone
(e.g: he ran to fetch help)

- achieve (a particular price) when sold
(e.g: the land could fetch over a million pounds)

- inflict (a blow or slap) on (someone)
(e.g: that brute Cullam fetched him a wallop)

- cause great interest or delight in (someone)
(e.g: that air of his always fetches women)


Phrases:
- fetch and carry

Origin:
Old English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian ‘grasp’, of Germanic origin and related to German fassen


[fɛtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the distance travelled by wind or waves across open water

- a stratagem or trick


Phrases:
- fetch and carry

Origin:
Old English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian ‘grasp’, of Germanic origin and related to German fassen


[fɛtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death
(e.g: I saw a fetch who looked like me)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 17th century: of unknown origin




definition by Oxford Dictionaries