Third person singular present tense of fetch; the act of going to get something and bringing it back.
From Old English feccan, later influenced by Old Norse. The word originally meant 'to drive' or 'to go,' evolving into the modern sense of retrieving something.
In naval terminology, 'fetch' has a completely different meaning—it's the distance over which wind can blow to create waves. So 'a long fetch' means ideal wave-making conditions, which is why surfers obsess over fetch distances during storm season.
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