Take-up \Take"-up`\ (t[=a]k"[u^]p`), n. (Mach.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch. [1913 Webster]

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take-up

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Take-up \Take"-up`\, n. (Mach.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)