Take-up

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Take-up \Take"-up`\ (t[=a]k"[u^]p`), n. (Mach.)
     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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  take-up
       n 1: a device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion
       2: the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or
          reeling in