farfetch

Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.

Noun

  1. Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
    • But Jesuits have deeper reaches In all their politic far-fetches - 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […],...
  2. Long distance
    • "`Come!' I said, for I thought she wandered. `Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a far fetch from here to Akatan.' - 1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales...

Origin

From far + fetch.

Forms

farfetches