take water (English, verb)
expansion: take water (third-person singular simple present takes water, present participle taking water, simple past took water, past participle taken water)
Senses:
glosses: To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship.
tags: archaic
historical
glosses: As a person or animal, to go into a body of water and start swimming.
glosses: Of a vessel, to admit water through a leak or port or similar; to take in water.
glosses: To run away; to back down.
tags: US
colloquial
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To top up the water tanks.
raw_tags: of steam locomotives
Forms:
form: takes water
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taking water
tags: participle
present
form: took water
tags: past
form: taken water
tags: participle
past