Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fetch \Fetch\ (?; 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.

            Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
                                                  --Milton.

            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 bred in
            thine hand.                           --1 Kings
                                                  xvii. 11, 12.

   2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

            Our native horses were held in small esteem, and
            fetched low prices.                   --Macaulay.

   3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to;
      as, to fetch a man to.

            Fetching men again when they swoon.   --Bacon.

   4. To reduce; to throw.

            The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to
            the ground.                           --South.

   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.

            I'll fetch a turn about the garden.   --Shak.

            He fetches his blow quick and sure.   --South.

   6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive
      at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

            Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The
            siren's isle.                         --Chapman.

   7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

            They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W.
                                                  Barnes.

   {To fetch a compass} (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a
      circuitious 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 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.



   4. Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of
      his eye; the compass of imagination.

            The compass of his argument.          --Wordsworth.

   5. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits;
      -- used with within.

            In two hundred years before (I speak within
            compass), no such commission had been executed.
                                                  --Sir J.
                                                  Davies.

   6. (Mus.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity
      of a voice or instrument.

            You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of
            my compass.                           --Shak.

   7. An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's
      surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning
      freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and
      southerly direction.

            He that first discovered the use of the compass did
            more for the supplying and increase of useful
            commodities than those who built workhouses.
                                                  --Locke.

   8. A pair of compasses. [R.] See {Compasses.}.

            To fix one foot of their compass wherever they
            please.                               --Swift.

   9. A circle; a continent. [Obs.]

            The tryne compas [the threefold world containing
            earth, sea, and heaven. --Skeat.]     --Chaucer.

   {Azimuth compass}. See under {Azimuth}.

   {Beam compass}. See under {Beam}.

   {Compass card}, the circular card attached to the needles of
      a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two
      points or rhumbs.

   {Compass dial}, a small pocket compass fitted with a sundial
      to tell the hour of the day.

   {Compass plane} (Carp.), a plane, convex in the direction of
      its length on the under side, for smoothing the concave
      faces of curved woodwork.

   {Compass plant}, {Compass flower} (Bot.), a plant of the
      American prairies ({Silphium laciniatum}), not unlike a
      small sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are
      vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present
      their edges north and south.

            Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the
            magnet: This is the compass flower.   --Longefellow.

   {Compass saw}, a saw with a narrow blade, which will cut in a
      curve; -- called also {fret saw} and {keyhole saw}.

   {Compass timber} (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber.

   {Compass window} (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel
      window.

   {Mariner's compass}, a kind of compass used in navigation. It
      has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a
      card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read with
      reference to a mark on the box representing the ship's
      head. The card is divided into thirty-two points, called
      also rhumbs, and the glass-covered box or bowl containing
      it is suspended in gimbals within the binnacle, in order
      to preserve its horizontal position.

   {Surveyor's compass}, an instrument used in surveying for
      measuring horizontal angles. See {Circumferentor}.

   {Variation compass}, a compass of delicate construction, used
      in observations on the variations of the needle.

   {To fetch a compass}, to make a circuit.