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Uptake
Pronunciation : Up*take"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] Wyclif. Spenser.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Up"take`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
(Steam Boilers)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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