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fetch away

vb. (context intransitive now rare English) To move off, come loose; to go off suddenly away (from) a given position.

Usage examples of "fetch away".

Expecting more servants to fetch away the dirty dishes, Magda opened the door.

With any man who comes only to rescue and fetch away children to their proper guardian, I have no quarrel.

Albuquerque was now placed in a position of some political importance, and he wrote first to Vijayanagar saying that he would give the Raya the refusal of all his horses if he would pay him 30,000 cruzados per annum for the supply, and send his own servants to Goa to fetch away the animals, and also that he would aid the king in his war if he was paid the expense of the troops.

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.