Take-up.
1. (Weaving.) That motion of the cloth-beam in a loom by which the web is wound up as fast as the weaving proceeds. The let-off is the paying off of the yarn from the beam, and proceeds coincidently with the take-up. See let-off.
2. (Steam Navigation.) The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel of a steamship.
3. (Sewing-machine.) A device in a sewingma-chine to draw upon the upper thread to take up its slack while the needle is rising, or resting at its highest point, to tighten the stitch. The independent take-up is one which acts in its own time without being actuated by the needle-bar.