Fetch, n.
 1. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
    Every little fetch of wit and criticism.   --South.
 2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
    The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.   --Dickens.
 Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

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