单词 | to fetch away |
释义 | > as lemmasto fetch away to fetch away intransitive. To move or shift from its proper place; to get loose. Cf. 10d. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > change place or position > from proper place to fetch way1670 to fetch away1769 shunt1850 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Chock A..wedge used to confine a cask..to prevent it from fetching way when the ship is in motion. 1808 Sporting Mag. 30 123 We fetch away, and are tossed to the farthest side of the cabin. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xx. 152 Even anchors and quarter-boats, have ‘fetched away’. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 182 Every..article on the breakfast table fetching away with a hideous crash. < as lemmas |
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