▪ I. † fet, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 fetian, fetiᵹ(e)an, 3–6 fett(e, fete, 3 south. vette, 3–5 fott(e, fot(e, 4–5 fatte, (4 fat, 5 fautt, feytte), 3–7 fet, 9 dial. fot. pa. tense 1 fetode, 1–6 fette, 2 fætte, fatte, featte, south. vatte, vætte, vette, 3–4 fotte, 4–7 fet. pa. pple. 1 fetod, feotod, 4–6 fett(e, 3–5 fott, 4–5 fotte, 4 fate, 6 fatt, 4–7, 9 dial. fet.
[OE. fetian (also ᵹefetian), a verb app. of the Teut. -êjan class. Its affinities are obscure; possibly it is related by ablaut to OE. fæt step, fæt vessel, OHG. fa{zced}{zced}ôn (MHG. fa{zced}{zced}en, mod.G. fassen) to grasp, seize. See fetch v.
After the OE. period chiefly used in the pa. tense and pa. pple.; hence the normal form fete of the present-stem was from an early date commonly replaced by fet, fett(e, by assimilation to the more frequent forms.]
A synonym of fetch in various senses.
1. = fetch v. 1. a. with obj. a person; = fetch v. 1 a.
| Beowulf 2625 Wæs to bure Beowulf fetod. a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 2666 (Gr.) He..heht him fetiᵹean to sprecan sine. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 Ure louerd ihesu criste fette adam ut of helle. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9218 Þe bissop vette Alisandre of lincolne. a 1300 Cursor M. 14965 (Gött.) Gas fet hir me. c 1314 Guy Warw. (A.) 4872 Fete hir to me. c 1325 Coer de L. 105 The kyng..bad That his doughter were forth fette. c 1386 Chaucer Sompn. T. 451 Forth he goth..And fat his felaw. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 1931 Hurre soule was fate to heuene w{supt} angels fre. c 1440 York Myst. xx. 226 Go furthe and fette youre sone. 1519 Four Elem. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 43, I will go fet hither a company. 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 665 A farre frend is not sone fet. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 194 The sayd Piers was fet home againe. 1611 Bible 2 Sam. xi. 27 Dauid sent, and fet her to his house. 1613 Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. Juven. (1633) 127 Till death doth fet yee. |
b. with a thing as obj.; = fetch v. 1 b.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2744 He comen water to feten. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3073 Geans wule vette Þulke stones vor medicine. a 1300 Cursor M. 12310 (Gött.) Water fra þe welle to fott. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus v. 852 The wyn men forth hym fette. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) iv. 32 Men comen fro fer..for to fetten of that gravelle. c 1440 Gesta Rom. lxv. 282 (Harl. MS.) He went home, and fette a long rope. 1521 Bury Wills (1850) 124 For fettyng hom of lede..from Berwill xvjđ. a 1553 Udall Royster D. iv. viii. (Arb.) 76 Shall I go fet our goose? 1560 Becon New Catech. Wks. 1844 II. 304 Jehu..caused..all the images to be fet out of the temple of Baal. 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 287 Let a little water be fett. 1628 Wither Brit. Rememb. i. 349 Nought But what was fet farre off. 1865 Harland Lanc. Lyrics 76 He said he'd fot it every neet. 1876 Oxfordsh. Gloss. s.v. Fet, I ha' bin an' fot a bit a coal. |
2. = fetch v. 2.
| a 1000 Prov. (Kemble) 61 (Bosw.) ælc ydel fet unhælo. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 173 Þei..fette to hem grete strengþe. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 192 Therof [water] uppe wol be fette By rootes. 1559 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 94 For my charges goinge to Herforde fatt be a sitacion. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. ix. li. (1612) 230 This Spanish Inquisition is a Trappe, so slyelie set, as into it Wise, Godly, Rich, by Blanchers bace are fet. |
3. = fetch v. 5.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 He uatte þet he nes and nawiht ne lefde of þet he wes. c 1205 Lay. 29673 Moni mon þer uætte hele. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 2499, I þe munt of Synai þer Moyses fatte þe lahe at ure lauerd. c 1275 Lay. 6460 Þe king..toward þan deore Þare he deaþ featte. c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 451 To þe grene chapel þou chose, I charge þe to fotte, Such a dunt as þou hatz dalt. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 2346 Crokette & maymotte fatton þere hurre hele. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 319 Þere [Colchos] Iason fette þe golden flees. a 1450 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 447 At qwat place the bretheren..shul fetten her wax. c 1460 Towneley Myst. 17 Thus am I comen bofettes to fott. |
4. = fetch v. 6, 6 b, c.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 36 (Cott.) He fettes fro þe rote his kynd. 1393 Gower Conf. I. 44 Wherof the worlde ensample fette May after this. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 20 To se their kyng..From two trewes trewly fet the lyne. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 206 b, Thou shalt..fette..thy confort of his blessed deth and passion. 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 212 To fet our examples not out of straunge countreys. 1588 Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. i. 4 b, An argument is either inhærent or fet elsewhere. |
5. = fetch v. 7.
| 1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. xiii. 1 The flie..fet such a persing sigh. 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. iii. lxvii, These two old ones their last gasp had fet. |
6. = fetch v. 9.
| 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 437, & verrore her wey uette To þe kynges owe ost of France. c 1425 Seven Sag. (Percy Soc.) 957 The bore..bygan tothes to wette, And to the tre byre he fette. 1470–85 Malory Arthur x. ii, He..fette his cours..hurlynge vpon sir palomydes. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. xi. 61 After the people had fet a windlasse and trayled about the mountaine Seir. 1651 Fuller's Abel Rediv., Tailor 177 He leap't, and fet a frisk, or two. |
7. = fetch v. 10 a.
| a 1547 Surrey Aeneid ii. 35 They..with that winde had fet the land of Grece. 1563 Mirr. Mag. Induct. lxxi, In a while we fet the shore. |
8. Idiomatically combined with advbs.: see fetch v. II. to fet again: to restore to consciousness. to fet in: to take in a supply of. to fet off: to ‘pick off’, kill.
| a 1553 Udall Royster D. iii. iii. (Arb.) 46, I will rubbe your temples, and fette you againe. 1602 Sir H. Dockwra Let. in Moryson Itin. ii. iii. i. 259, I..fet in turffe..for fewell. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 416 None..could stirre within shot, but he was forthwith fet off. Ibid. 582 In danger to be fet off with shot. 1635 N. R. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. xxviii. 285 Cuba..where they fet in fresh..water. |
▪ II. fet
obs. form of fat.