Definition of Take water

1. Verb. Enter the water. "The wild ducks took water"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Water

take to pieces
take to task
take to the cleaners
take to the hills
take to the streets
take to the woods
take turns
take umbrage
take up
take up a collection
take up arms
take up the cudgel for
take up the gauntlet
take up with
take upon
take water (current term)
take wing
takeable
takeaway
takeaways
taked
takedaite
takedown
takedowns
takehome
takehome pay
taken
taken a hint
taken aback
taken action

Literary usage of Take water

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1904)
"The third and last class of easements .which can be Right to take acquired in water are rights to take water for use or con- water for use. sumption, ..."

2. The Law of Waters and Water Rights: International, National, State by Henry Philip Farnham (1904)
"To take water from well.—An easement may be secured to take water from a well on another's property. This may be by gram or prescription. ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1899)
"WATER COMPANIES—GRANT BY, OF RIGHT TO take water.—An incorporated canal company, having authority, under Its charter, to use its canal for the purpose of ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The plaintiff testified in part as follows: The engineer ran up to the standpipe. He told me to take water on the tender, and I went to take water. ..."

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