Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            Every little fetch of wit and criticism. --South.

   2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

            The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens.

   {Fetch candle}, a light seen at night, superstitiously
      believed to portend a person's death.