take soil

verb

To run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.

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Meanings

verbtake soil (third-person singular simple present takes soil, present participle taking soil, simple past took soil, past participle taken soil)

present singular third person takes soil · participle present taking soil · past took soil · participle past taken soil

  1. archaicidiomaticTo run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.

    O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man may reach you after three hours' running.

    1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
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    […] finding that he could not shake off the hounds, turned to the left towards the Saltwater River, and rushing down a precipitous and stony approach to the river, he instantly took soil in very deep water, with the pack clustering round him.

    1891, Robert Weir, James Moray Brown, Riding, page 192
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