Strange Word from ENR
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I've just never seen the use of the word "fetched" in this context before
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Dislodged Cedar Rapids buildings fetched up against bridge.
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A verb
1 bring, get, convey, fetch
go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"
Category Tree:
move; displace
╚transmit; transfer; transport; channel; channelize; channelise
╚bring, get, convey, fetch
╚deliver
╚retrieve
2 fetch
take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"
Category Tree:
move; displace
╚transport; carry
╚bring; convey; take
╚fetch
3 fetch, bring in, bring
be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
I guess if you try really hard you can justify using it like that
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- Steve
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Dislodged Cedar Rapids buildings PUSHED up against bridge.
Maybe "caught" or "piled"...
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"damaged buildings against the bridge"
possibly even flotsam, as they were floated off their foundations ?
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The shoreline at the downwind end of a fetch will collect all manor of wind-driven flotsam and jetsam.
So I could understand - but have never heard used - "fetched" in relation to the crap that accumulates on a shoreline due to wind.
Having gotten this far, the buildings in the picture got there due to the influence of water, not wind. Therefore, I think "fetched" is incorrect in the context of the picture.
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.... as opposed to slightly archaic english english where it is used in the context of "nearly fetched up my breakfast"
A.
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good enough for me.
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fetch up
One entry found.
fetch up
Main Entry:
fetch up
Function:
verb
Date:
1599
transitive verb
1 : to bring up or out : produce 2 : to make up (as lost time) 3 : to bring to a stop intransitive verb : to reach a standstill, stopping place, or goal : end up <may have fetched up running a village store — Geoffrey Household>"
Merriam-Webster free online dictionary
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Similar to 'hung up' or 'tangled up'.
To me (NB Canada), it would be a common useage.
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Since these houses are now on public property if you entered one of these houses would you actually be trespassing?
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Ironically, this article is by a man named Tom Sawyer!
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old field guy
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As a footnote to anyone who hasn't taken the opportunity to read it - it is certainly a good but sometimes difficult read.
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- Steve
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Fetch up... to come to a stop.
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Cheers
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- Steve
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Bill
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I would have said the houses were pinned against the bridge by the current.
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it is a wonderful site you have going here, More word-power to us all.
Tom Sawyer, ENR
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If someone takes offence your post will be red flagged and probably removed.
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Matt Lorono
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My question is are the engineering improvements mentioned in the caption to the bridge or the houses. After all most the houses are standing tall too :)
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In the case in the OT, I would have said the river current fetched the house up against the bridge meaning that the action was by the river. So I guess in that sense, I guess you could say since the current did it, once it was done it was fetched up against the bridge.
rmw
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