take water

== English == === Verb === take water (third-person singular simple present takes water, present participle taking water, simple past took water, past participle taken water) (now rare, historical) To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship. [from 15th c.] As a person or animal, to go into a body of water and start swimming. [from 15th c.] Of a vessel, to admit water through a leak or port or similar; to take in water. [from 16th c.] (US, colloquial) To run away; to back down. [from 19th c.] (rail transport, of steam locomotives) To top up the water tanks.