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▪ I. fetching, vbl. n.|ˈfɛtʃɪŋ|
[f. fetch v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fetch in various senses. † fetching of boards: = tacking: see board n. 15.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 890 Swich wreche on hem, for fecchyng of Eleyne, Ther shal ben take. 1464Nottingham Rec. II. 377 For fecchyng of money at Retforde by ij tymes. 1581Mulcaster Positions xx. (1887) 84 To procure easie fetching of ones breath, it is verie soueraine. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. I. iii. v. 216 Let me liue..in a spacious Countrey..where there is few fetching of boords. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 76 Fuel costs nothing but fetching. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic v. iii. 89 To give them Job's goods merely for fetching. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 57, I hate such fetching and carrying. 1884H. M. Leathes Notes Nat. Hist. 110 Their [dogs'] natural propensities for hunting, watching, and fetching.
2. With again, up, etc.: see adv. combs. of verb.
1513More in Grafton Chron. II. 770 The fetching forth of this noble man to his honour and welth. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 252 The reuiuing and fetching againe of a decayed Christian! 1633Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. (1851) 205 The fetching up my soul from this vale of misery and tears. 1673Penn Chr. a Quaker xxii. 588 It is not Fetching in this Thought..that gives Right Peace.
▪ II. fetching, ppl. a.|ˈfɛtʃɪŋ|
[f. fetch v. + -ing2.]
†1. That contrives, plans, schemes; crafty, designing. Obs.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 97 b, Such fetching heads..consume themselves in a manner awaie, in devising new kindes of extortion. 1583Foxe A. & M. (ed. 4) 575/1 What cannot the fetchyng practise of the Romish Prelates bring about?
2. Alluring, fascinating, pleasing, ‘taking’.
1880Mrs. Forrester Roy & V. I. 284 There is nothing..so fetching as a beautiful voice. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. xxvii. 297 ‘What a fetching get-up,’ said Edgar. 1891Athenæum 21 Nov. 685/2 The imitation from Wordsworth is particularly ‘fetching’.
Hence ˈfetchingly adv.
1889Cath. News 3 Aug. 5/1 She was fetchingly attired. |