fetch : Idioms & Phrases

Index

Fetch candle
fetch up
To fetch headway ∨ sternway
To fetch a compass
To fetch a pump
To fetch and carry
To fetch away
To fetch out
To fetch up

Fetch candle

a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

Webster 1913

fetch up

verb finally be or do something
finish; wind up; land up; end up; finish up.
- He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
- he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

WordNet

To fetch headway ∨ sternway

(Naut.), to move ahead or astern.

Webster 1913

To fetch a compass

(Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place.
to make a circuit.

Webster 1913

To fetch a pump

to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Webster 1913

To fetch and carry

to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.

Webster 1913

To fetch away

(Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward.

Webster 1913

To fetch out

to develop. "The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]" Addison.

Webster 1913

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.

Webster 1913