fortake

present singular third person fortakes · participle present fortaking · past fortook · participle past fortaken · first person past singular fortook · archaic present second person singular fortakest · past second person singular fortook · archaic past second person singular fortookst · present singular third person fortakes · archaic present singular third person fortaketh · past singular third person fortook · past plural fortook · past subjunctive fortook · participle present fortaking · participle past fortaken

1. transitiveTo take away; remove; deprive.

   In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men!

   1898, Stopford Augustus Brooke, English literature: from the beginning to the Norman conquest

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   Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...]

   1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow

2. UKdialectaltransitiveTo mistake; make a mistake.
3. UKdialectaltransitiveTo aim or deal a blow at; hit.