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.
fetch, v. i. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to
fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten.
To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To
fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.
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.