English

Verb

fetch up ‎(third-person singular simple present fetches up, present participle fetching up, simple past and past participle fetched up)

1. To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.
   • 1995, Junichi Saga, Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld

     We panicked again for a moment, but the wind switched direction without warning, and we slowly drifted away till we fetched up at Tsukuda island, where the Sumida runs into the bay.

2. (obsolete) To overtake.
   • L'Estrange

     Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.