• (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.
Take'-up` noun (Machinery) 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. 
[v] - take up time or space 2. [v] - turn one`s interest to 3. [v] - adopt, as of ideas 4. [v] - pursue or resume[n] - a device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion 2. [n] - the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
Steel block where material is wound when rolling or slitting.
noun the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
An apparatus for reeling extruded material.