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Definition of Take the count
1. Verb. Be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten.
Category relationships: Boxing, Fisticuffs, Pugilism
Generic synonyms: Lose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take The Count
Literary usage of Take the count
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky by Maurice Auguste Benyowsky, Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1904)
"... CHAPTER XXVII The government sends a military force to take the Count prisoner—The
exiles oppose them, and by their superior bravery and military skill, ..."
2. Joseph II and His Court: An Historical Novel by Luise Mühlbach (1884)
"Do you take the count for a sorcerer ? " " I take him for a true and loyal friend
of his sovereign," eaid Louis, " and I only wish that I possessed one as ..."
3. History of the House of Austria, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by by William Coxe (1853)
"Smolka further represented to the major that it was better to take the count
prisoner, than to give him up to certain death, if he should be found by the ..."
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