fetch way en · VERB
Meanings
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(archaic, idiomatic) To move from the proper place; to come loose.
When running before the wind, she rolled so deep that almost everything fetched way, and a dismal night I passed.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 160
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fetching way | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fetched way | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fetched way | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fetches way | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |