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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun take-up has 2 senses
- take-up(n = noun.artifact) - any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom); "a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool" is a kind of device
- take-up(n = noun.act) - the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in; is a kind of tightening
CIDE DICTIONARY
take-up, n.
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]