Meanings
verbtake check (third-person singular simple present takes check, present participle taking check, simple past took check, past participle taken check)
present singular third person takes check · participle present taking check · past took check · participle past taken check
- idiomaticobsoleteTo take offence.
Say I shou'd wed her, wou'd not my wife subjects Take check, and think it strange?
1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
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