fetcher

/ˈfɛtʃər/
noun
  1. A person or animal that fetches something, especially a dog trained to retrieve.
    • He hired a fetcher to bring supplies from the warehouse.
    • The Labrador is an excellent fetcher of tennis balls.
    • The puppy was a natural fetcher from the very first game.
  2. (computing) A component or program that retrieves data from a source.
    • This data fetcher pulls information from multiple databases.
    • The email fetcher downloads messages from the server.
    • The web fetcher collects pages for offline reading.
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