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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Fetch(e, n.2 [e.m.E. fetch, fech (c 1530), f. Fetch(e,v.] a. A circling course. b. A scheme, device, stratagem, trick. — 1563-1570 Buch. Wks. 47.
Chamæleon … eftir lang fetchis brocht agane to the court 1571 Bann. Mem. 127.
I can not tell what fetches or shiftis your lordschip hes vsit in thir proceidingis 1584 Reg. Privy C. III. 664.
[Thinking it meet] to obviat and repres thair fetchis and treasounable pretenssis
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