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Definition of Take in water
1. Verb. Take in water at the bilge. "The tanker bilged"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take In Water
Literary usage of Take in water
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"... valued at that sum, at and for the purchase of stock and to take in water,
from New York to Castle D'Elmina, on the and therefore vitiates the policy, ..."
2. The Canarian by Pierre Bontier, Jean Le Verrier, Richard Henry Major (1872)
"There they remained till daybreak, when some of them landed to take in water,
but the people of the country assembled and attacked them, so that, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Maceroni by Francis Maceroni (1838)
"The carriage stopped twice to take in water, which consumed a considerable time,
much more than, under proper regulations, there will be any necessity for.t ..."
4. Lectures on Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1852)
"Now as that fleet had to cross the whole of the Ionian sea, it was necessary to
take in water before cutting across. The sad manner in which the Spartans ..."
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