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

  1. (idiomatic, archaic) To move from the proper place; to come loose.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 160:
      When running before the wind, she rolled so deep that almost everything fetched way, and a dismal night I passed.