fee vs fetch

fee

verb
  • To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. 

noun
  • A right to the use of a superior's land as a stipend for certain services to be performed, typically military service. 

  • An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good that is minor compared to the underlying cost. 

  • Synonym of fief: the land so held. 

  • An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail). 

  • An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of performance of certain services, typically military service. 

fetch

verb
  • To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. 

  • To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. 

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

  • To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. 

  • To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh) 

  • To reduce; to throw. 

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

  • To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. 

intj
  • Minced oath for fuck. 

noun
  • An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. 

  • A stratagem or trick; an artifice. 

  • The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts. 

  • An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves. 

  • An act of fetching data. 

  • The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). 

  • The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction). 

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