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fetch | ketch |

In lang=en terms the difference between fetch and ketch

is that fetch is attractive, popular while ketch is to hang.

As an adjective fetch

is attractive, popular.

fetch

English

(wikipedia fetch)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Verb

  • To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  • * Bible, 1 (w) xvii. 11, 12
    • He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
    • When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.
  • To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • (label) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
    • to fetch headway or sternway
  • * (George Chapman) (1559-1634)
    • Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
  • (label) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  • To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
  • * 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),
    • The hurt n***** moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
  • To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  • * (William Barnes) (1801-1886)
    • They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
  • (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to .
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Fetching men again when they swoon.
  • To reduce; to throw.
  • * (Robert South) (1634–1716)
    • The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
  • To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
  • * (Robert South) (1634–1716)
    • He fetches his blow quick and sure.
  • To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

    • Derived terms

    * fetch away * fetch and carry * fetch a wife * fetch up * prefetch

    Noun

    (es)
  • The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.
  • 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.
  • * 1665 , Robert South, "Jesus of Nazareth proved the true and only promised Messiah", in ''Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 3, 6th Edition, 1727
    • Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
  • The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die)
  • * 1921 , Sterling Andrus Leonard, The Atlantic book of modern plays .
    • but see only the "fetch " or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
  • * 1844 , (Charles Dickens), (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) , Page 236
    • The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.
  • (computing) The act of fetching data.
    • a fetch from a cache

    Derived terms

    * fetch candle

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (rfv-sense) (slang) attractive, popular

    • ketch

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
    • See also
    * yawl.

    Etymology 2

    See catch

    Verb

    (es)
  • .
  • * 1815 , D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England , I. 21,
    • I guess, he is trying to ketch' mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ' ketch'd with chaff.
  • * 1865 , , II. IV. xv., page 287
    • Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
  • * 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
  • * 1911 , , volume ii, page 60
    • You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
  • * 1916 , W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
    • You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
  • * 1929 , H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
    • If so you gonna ketch hell.
  • * 1967 , Atlantic Monthly , Apr. 103/1
    • You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
  • * 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445

    • Etymology 3

    From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (rare) To hang.
  • * 1681 , T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
    • 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
  • * n.d. , ''Ibid;;. No. 18
    • Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd , speed him say I.
  • * 1840', ' Fraser's Mag ., XXI. 210
    • Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft .
  • * 1859 , MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
    • I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A hangman.