bring v EDD ~ 112 Ir, JOYCE 225 for sense 1; cp OED v 25 a naut bring to 'fasten, tie,' OED 27 d naut bring up 'to come to anchor' for phr in sense 2.
   1 To take.
   P 152-58 [One says] bring something away instead of take or carry.
   2 Phr bring the land ashore: to close with the land.
   C 67-7 When you're sailing and you want to get closer to the shore you say that you want to 'bring the land ashore.'
   bring to: to knit a section of net; to fasten lengths or parts of a net together.
   1861 DE BOILIEU 85 The foot of [the seal-net] is brought-to on a shallop's old rode. 1933 MERRICK 18 Cecil wants a brinbag to jam some traps in and Arch is 'bringing to' a trout net. T 141/66-65² I could bring to linnet when I was only about ten or twelve, and mend everything. T 187/90-65 On the last of it they had a 'leader' to bring to, and [the skipper] said he's going to get a man belong to Carbonear to come and bring to the leader. So I started to bring to the leader [myself]. P 9-73 [There are] two or three corks to a section and fastened solidly on each side of each section of cork to the rope to which the netting had already been fastened (brought to).
   bring up: to come up against an object, stop.
   T 50/1-64 She took one skitter away on the water—I allow she went as far from this down to Pad's before she brought up in big breakin' lop. T 43/8-64 When the goat would go to the fence, she'd get her head in, and the yoke would bring up on the pickets. She couldn't get any further. T 172/5-65 [The bay is] noted very much for icebergs because [of] so many shoals-icebergs brings up there.
   3 Hence, cpd bring-up: an object which impedes; a place where one stops.
   1898 Christmas Bells 17 This my rod would not throw satisfactorily, so after a few trials my 'fly' found the nose of one of the persons who were basking behind me—the bring-up tangling my line and breaking a joint. [1918-19] GORDON 60 One always has a most entertaining host in old Arthur Rich. It just happened that this was our bring-up for a week-end last year. 1925 Dial Notes v, 327 ~ The place where one stops.

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