Fetch \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.