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Take-Up
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Take-Up'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/take-up.html. 1828.