Bible Dictionaries
Uptake

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Understanding; apprehension.

(2):

(v. t.) To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

(3):

(n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Uptake'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​u/uptake.html. 1828.