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单词 to fetch one's feeze
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to fetch one's feeze
b. Phrases. †to fetch one's birr, to fetch one's course, to fetch one's feeze (see birr n.1 2, course n. 12a, feeze n. 1b); to fetch a circuit: see circuit n. 3d; to fetch a compass: see compass n.1 11d; to fetch the farm: see farm n.2 8.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. i. 5 The wynde goeth towarde ye South, & fetcheth his compase aboute vnto the North.
1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 213 As one that intendeth to make a greate lepe, I muste..ronne back to fetche my course.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 163 To fetch the cyrcuyte about Christendome.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fetche a compasse in speakinge, ambagio.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iii. 317 A long-winged Hawke..mounts aloft, and..fetcheth a many circuits in the Aire.
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 141 Traind up..by the scripture..without fetching the compas of other arts and sciences.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 147 Leaving Stepney, they fetched a long Compass.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 16 My Brother..fetch'd a Round farther into Buckinghamshire.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv*. 222 He fetched a large circuit..avoiding the hamlet. View more context for this quotation
1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xiv. 71 The compass commonly fetched before the pupil can be conducted to the point intended.
1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 110/2 Troops of deer..fetching a compass by way of re-entering the forest grounds.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. viii. iv. 350 It is..necessary to fetch a circuit of many miles.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 907/1 He had fetched a compass of the whole [isle].
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