To fetch away
| (Naut.) | to break loose; to roll or slide to leeward. |
See also: fetch
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The judge, however, would say nothing about this, and lost no time in sending men to fetch away all that Alnaschar had taken from the house.
"I've been expecting you in every moment to fetch away your Articles, Captain.
Passing on my way aft along the other side of the ship, I observed that the rope side ladder, put over, no doubt, for the master of the tug when he came to fetch away our letters, had not been hauled in as it should have been.
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- To fall from grace
- To fall home
- To fall in
- To fall in with
- To fall into one's hands
- To fall off
- To fall through
- To fang a pump
- To farm let
- To fasten a charge upon
- To fasten one's eyes upon
- To father on
- To feather an oar
- To feather one's nest
- To feather the oars
- To feel after
- To feel at home
- To feel one's oats
- To feel the helm
- To feeze up
- To fence the tables
- To fend off a boat
- To fetch a compass
- To fetch a pump
- To fetch and carry
- To fetch away
- To fetch headway
- To fetch out
- To fetch up
- To fight at barriers
- To fight it out
- To fight shy
- To figure out
- To figure up
- To file with
- To fill in
- To fill out
- To fill the ranks
- To fill up
- To find fault
- To find fault with
- To find favor in the eyes (of
- To find in the heart
- To find one's self
- To find out
- To find the latchstring out
- To fine
- To fire up
- To fish the anchor
- To fit out
- To fit up
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- to feel like lead
- to feel like the wrath of God
- to feel off kilter
- to feel off-kilter
- To feel one's oats
- To feel one's oats
- to feel out of kilter
- to feel out of whack
- to feel pleased with oneself
- to feel quite pleased with oneself
- to feel someone's pain
- to feel the burn
- to feel the cold
- to feel the earth move
- to feel the heat
- To feel the helm
- to feel the pinch
- to feel the squeeze
- to feel very pleased with oneself
- to feet
- to feet
- to feet
- to feet
- to feet
- To feeze up
- To fence the tables
- To fend off a boat
- To fetch a compass
- To fetch a pump
- To fetch and carry
- To fetch away
- To fetch headway
- To fetch out
- To fetch up
- to fiddle while Rome burns
- to fight 'til the bitter end
- to fight a losing battle
- To fight at barriers
- To fight it out
- to fight like cat and dog
- to fight like the devil
- to fight losing battles
- To fight shy
- to fight til the bitter end
- to fight till the bitter end
- to fight to the bitter end
- to fight tooth and claw
- to fight tooth and nail
- to fight until the bitter end
- To figure out
- to figure out the root of the problem
- To figure up
- To file with
- To Fill
- To fill in
- To fill out
- to fill the bill
- To fill the ranks
- To fill up
- to find another gear
- To find fault
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