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fetcher|ˈfɛtʃə(r)|
[f. fetch v. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which fetches, in various senses of the verb. Also in phrase fetcher and carrier, and in comb., as water-fetcher, etc.
1552Huloet, Fetcher of water. Aquarius. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Faiseur de soubresaults, a fetcher of gamboldes, a tumbler. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. B vij, The fetcher of Euridice from hell. 1751Gray Wks. (1825) II. 161 You will take me for a mere poet and a fetcher and carrier of sing-song. a1863Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii, The poor fellow has been employed..in the same office of fetcher and carrier. 1877Kinglake Crimea VI. vi. 97 The wood and the water fetchers went out.
†b. spec. (see quot. 1890). Obs.
1890P. H. Brown George Buchanan ii. 27 Lads proceeding to Cambridge from the remoter districts went in a body under a ‘fetcher’. 1892Q. Rev. Jan. 24 The students..were collected by ‘fetchers’ brought to Oxford, &c.
2. With advbs., as fetcher in.
1611Chapman Iliad i. 167 Of fight (the fetcher in of this) My hands haue most share. 1660Howell, Fetcher in, ameneur. |