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fetch-
the vb.-stem in comb. with adv., as fetch-after, see quot. 1888; with n. as obj.; † fetch-fire attrib.; fetch-water, a water-carrier.
1598Chapman Iliad vi. 495 But spin the Greek wives' webs of task, and their fetch-water be. 1784Unfortunate Sensibility II. 10 In a country-town a much less change would have been a sufficient topic for a fetch-fire gossip, or a bake-house conversation. 1888Lancet 30 June 1308 The forms of caterpillar known..popularly..as ‘fetch-afters’, from their mode of progression. |