intakingn.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > capturing
winningc1330
intaking1637
town-taking1760
capturing1800
1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 13 Captaine Robert Stewart..was preferred before the In-taking of Virtzberg, having beene before the Battaile of Lipsigh.
1891 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 348 I have held two and twenty towns, and I have been at the intaking of thirty-one [Archaism temp. Edw. III].
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun]
amendment1483
improvement1549
improvinga1563
recoverya1632
mendment1644
cultivation1791
reclaim1799
reclamation1810
intaking1812
redemption1812
clearing1821
reclaimment1852
land reclamation1881
breaking-in1891
greening1955
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > enclosing
enclosure1528
inning1528
intaking1812
1812 D. Souter Gen. View Agric. Banff App. 49 The reasons of ebb-ploughing, at intaking, are to retain the dung as near the surface as possible.
3. The action of taking in or receiving from outside (esp. in senses intake n. 1a, 1b).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > taking in
taking in1456
reception?a1475
introreceptiona1660
intake1808
intaking1905
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > action of receiving group of entrants
intaking1966
1905 C. Kernahan Visions 283 The soft intaking of a baby's breath.
1959 Listener 5 Mar. 402/2 A period of intensive learning—of intaking rather than outputting.
1966 I. Jefferies House-surgeon iv. 88 I just went to the intaking chief.
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