"take a sight" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes a sight",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a sight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a sight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a sight",
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        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a sight"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, The New Monthly Magazine, page 455",
          "text": "He put his thumb to his nose as he said this and (in familiar phrase) took a sight at me, winking one eye in the most confidential manner, and at the same time gently tapping his breeches pocket.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Jacky S, Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid, page 263",
          "text": "Papa did the best thing he could do under the circumstances: he got up and left us, and as he rose, Lilian put her thumb to her nose, and “took a sight” at him, much to my inward disgust, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of cock a snook (“perform disrespectful gesture with thumb against the nose”)"
      ],
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  "word": "take a sight"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a sight",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a sight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a sight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a sight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a sight"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, The New Monthly Magazine, page 455",
          "text": "He put his thumb to his nose as he said this and (in familiar phrase) took a sight at me, winking one eye in the most confidential manner, and at the same time gently tapping his breeches pocket.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Jacky S, Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid, page 263",
          "text": "Papa did the best thing he could do under the circumstances: he got up and left us, and as he rose, Lilian put her thumb to her nose, and “took a sight” at him, much to my inward disgust, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Synonym of cock a snook (“perform disrespectful gesture with thumb against the nose”)"
      ],
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  "word": "take a sight"
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