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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Every little fetch of wit and criticism. --South.
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   2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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            The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens.
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   3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind
      blows to generate waves.
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   4. Hence: The length of such a region.
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   Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously
      believed to portend a person's death.
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