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• (chiefly with reference to a boat's stopping) without time to lower the sails.

  ‘Passion Flower brought up all standing with a crash’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The US nuclear submarine USS San Fransisco en route to Brisbane Australia, for a port visit, came up all standing on Saturday, the 8th. of January 2005, when it ran into an underwater mountain about 350 miles south of Guam.’