fetch up
(intr; usually foll by at or in) informal to arrive (at) or end up (in): to fetch up in New York
(intr) nautical to stop suddenly, as from running aground: to fetch up on a rock
slang to vomit (food, etc)
(tr) British dialect to rear (children, animals, etc)
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How to use fetch up in a sentence
Rhino horn is particularly lucrative—each kilogram can fetch up to $66,000.
Rhino horn can fetch up to $60,000 per kilo on the black market.
Panagopulos estimated the journals would fetch up to $400,000.
More'n that, here's a letter she had Ephraim fetch up-mounting, when he druv down for her mail.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondI must send and fetch up all the police, and I daresay some of the colonists will join.
A Final Reckoning | G. A. Henty
Away went man and beast in something of a circle, to fetch up near Pawnee Brown less than a minute later.
The Boy Land Boomer | Ralph BonehillBut, so soon as the British lion is roused, we never fail to fetch up our lee-way, as the sailors say.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2) | John Hill BurtonMarble and I now began to question our fisherman as to the precise point where he intended to fetch up.
Miles Wallingford | James Fenimore Cooper
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