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Fetch candle
(gcide) | Fetch \Fetch\, n.
1. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to
pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is
done; a trick; an artifice.
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Every little fetch of wit and criticism. --South.
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2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. --Dickens.
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3. The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind
blows to generate waves.
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4. Hence: The length of such a region.
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Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously
believed to portend a person's death.
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