To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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.
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.
Minced oath for fuck.
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).