See take water on Wiktionary
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"form": "taking water",
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"ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I concealed my amour, as well as the effects of it, from his knowledge, and frequently took water from the Bridge, that my motions might not be discovered.",
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"To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship."
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"(now rare, historical) To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship."
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"As a person or animal, to go into a body of water and start swimming."
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"ref": "1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:",
"text": "It had taken Water, and the Powder was cak'd as hard as a Stone.",
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"Of a vessel, to admit water through a leak or port or similar; to take in water."
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"glosses": [
"To run away; to back down."
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"(US, colloquial) To run away; to back down."
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"ref": "1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 6:",
"text": "The engines took water at Dingwall, the junction for the cross-country line to Kyle of Lochalsh, and again at Tain, 44 miles from Inverness.",
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"To top up the water tanks."
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"(rail transport, of steam locomotives) To top up the water tanks."
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"text": "I concealed my amour, as well as the effects of it, from his knowledge, and frequently took water from the Bridge, that my motions might not be discovered.",
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"To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship."
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"(now rare, historical) To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship."
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"text": "It had taken Water, and the Powder was cak'd as hard as a Stone.",
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"Of a vessel, to admit water through a leak or port or similar; to take in water."
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"To run away; to back down."
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"(US, colloquial) To run away; to back down."
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"ref": "1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 6:",
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"To top up the water tanks."
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"(rail transport, of steam locomotives) To top up the water tanks."
],
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