fetch away

verb

fetch away

verb

1

Dated To move off, come loose; to go off suddenly away (from) a given position.

Some miles before the Arab fort the road fetches away inland from the coast and to reach the oasis one must swerve aside off the tarmac [...].1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

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