Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cylinder, covered with card-clothing, which takes the fibers of wool or cotton from the feed-rolls to the main cylinder, or drum, of a carding-machine; a taker.
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Examples
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The average one of us - a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed - as he or she should be - with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day - it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend - and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce.
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The average one of us - a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed - as he or she should be - with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day - it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend - and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce.
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The average one of us - a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed - as he or she should be - with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day - it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend - and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce.
Keeping It Real 2004
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Ask Jean Lundy, a devoted shelter reformer and taker-in of animal refugees.
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998
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Ask Jean Lundy, a devoted shelter reformer and taker-in of animal refugees.
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998
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And you require such a very interesting "taker-in" to make it bearable at all.
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Jenny Wren
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I won't be a nurserymaid, nor a lady's-maid, far less a lady's companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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