fetch away

English

Verb

fetch away (third-person singular simple present fetches away, present participle fetching away, simple past and past participle fetched away)

1. (intransitive, dated) To move off, come loose; to go off suddenly away (from) a given position.
   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

     Some miles before the Arab fort the road fetches away inland from the coast and to reach the oasis one must swerve aside off the tarmac [...].