| 单词 | to fetch one's feeze | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΚΠ 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]. < as lemmas | 
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