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ˌput-and-ˈtake
1. A gambling game played with a six-sided top. Also transf., the top with which the game is played. Also attrib. and fig.
1922Daily Mail 5 Jan. 5/4 (heading) Put and take in court. Ibid., For playing Put and Take in a recreation ground a youth was charged under the Gaming Act at Hull yesterday. 1922Vet. Jrnl. XXVIII. 105 A rough⁓haired fox-terrier dog, ‘Jazz’, ..was brought to me with the history that a brass ‘Put and Take’ top, ‘put’ on the hearthrug, had been ‘taken’ up and swallowed by him. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End viii. 132 In 1922 the craze was for a simple gambling device known as ‘Put and Take’..a small six-sided top which players..spun in turn. 1960R. C. Bell Board & Table Games v. 146 Put and Take. Each player..spins a six sided teetotum and obeys the instructions on the face falling uppermost. 1970Guardian 9 Dec. 1/5 The deadly game of put-and-take brought on by the electricity generating workers' work-to-rule. 1972Observer 3 Sept. 32/1 Each juror was issued with two bronze tokens with a shaft through the middle, rather like a put-and-take.
2. Econ. = put-and-call.
1929[see put-and-call].
3. The stocking of streams and lakes with fish for anglers to catch. Usu. attrib.
1943Sun (Baltimore) 26 Jan. 6/3 (heading) Put-and-take fishing planned by W. Virginia. Ibid., The revision would take the form of stocking a much larger number of legal size trout on a ‘put-and-take’ basis in rivers and creeks which are not year-around trout streams. 1973Country Life 21 June 1804/1 The rainbow trout is..the ideal stock fish for enclosed waters..where fishing is increasingly on a ‘put and take’ basis. 1974Ibid. 26 Sept. 831/3 The cultivation of sizeable trout which are stocked makes Traws a sort of put-and-take fishery unlike most put-and-take places. |