'Take-up' definitions:
Definition of 'take-up'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom); "a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool"
noun
The action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
Definition of 'Take-up'
From: 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]