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ˈinˌtaking, vbl. n.
[in adv. 11 c.]
†1. The action of capturing or taking by force of arms. [= Ger. einnahme, einnehmung.] Sc. Obs.
1637R. Monro Exp. Scots Regim. ii. 13 Captaine Robert Stewart..was preferred before the In-taking of Virtzberg, having beene before the Battaile of Lipsigh. 1891Cornh. Mag. Apr. 348, I have held two and twenty towns, and I have been at the intaking of thirty-one [Archaism temp. Edw. III].
†2. The taking in of moorland into cultivation. Sc. Obs.
1812Souter Agric. Surv. Banffs. App. 49 The reasons of ebb-ploughing, at intaking, are to retain the dung as near the surface as possible.
3. The action of taking in or receiving from outside (esp. in senses 1 a, b of intake n.).
1905C. Kernahan Visions 283 The soft intaking of a baby's breath. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 402/2 A period of intensive learning—of intaking rather than outputting. 1966I. Jefferies House-Surgeon iv. 88, I just went to the intaking chief. |