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fetch noun1. M16.
[from the verb.]
An act of fetching, a reach, a sweep, (arch.); spec. a sheepdog's bringing of sheep back to the handler by the most direct route (the third stage of sheepdog trials). M16.
J. C. Shairp A great fetch of imaginative power.
A contrivance, a stratagem, a trick. Now arch. rare. M16.
H. Bushnell No ingenious fetches of argument.
Nautical.
a. An act of tacking. Now rare. M16.
b. The line of a continuous stretch of water from point to point, e.g. of a bay or of open sea, or traversed by wind or waves. M19.
An indrawn or caught breath; a sigh. dial. M19.