UPTAKE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] Wyclif. Spenser.

2.
n.

The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

3.
n.

Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.


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