offtaken.

1835 J. Holland Hist. & Descr. Fossil Fuel, Collieries, & Coal Trade 187 3000 gallons of water per minute,—for the raising of which into an off-take drift, a double-acting steam-engine..was found necessary.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 320 There are subsidiary levels, called off-takes or drifts, which discharge the water of a mine, not at the mouth of a pit, but..where, from the form of the country, it may be run off level free.

1888 19th Cent. Jan. 44 The third of the Hugli headwaters has its principal offtake from the Ganges again about forty miles further down.

1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 8 Delivery drift, (off-take drift), a..drift connected to a shaft from a point on the surface at a lower level than the shaft top and used as an outlet into which the mine pumps discharge.

1992 D. M. Muir Dust & Fume Control (rev. ed.) v. 19 The purpose of the slot is purely to provide sufficient pressure drop to prevent all the air being induced from that section of the hood nearest the suction off-take.

1885 Manch. Examiner 10 June 4/4 In jacconets..supply and offtake seem to have been brought pretty well into conformity.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/2 The proportion of the total off-take of the Shanghai market supplied by Great Britain or her Colonies was 79 per cent.

1955 Times 12 May 17/2 Producers have not been keen recently to tender metal for the stockpile because of the high rate of commercial off-take.

1969 Hindu (Madras) 3 Aug. 1/5 With the opening of free market shops, the off-take from the existing ration shops would go down.

1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green iv. 23 We might work out some sort of guarantee based on the projected offtake of their new oil discoveries in the Western Desert.

1975 Petroleum Rev. 29 317/1 Links with local supply systems are effected at small offtake stations, where the pipework and associated control valves appear above ground.

1988 New Scientist 7 Jan. 30/1 A report for the World Wildlife Fund..said that ‘if the offtake of the last ten years were maintained, the East African elephant would be finished in eight years’.

2000 Land (N. Richmond, New S. Wales) 1 June 64/1 Analysts said sugar has turned around due to brisk physical offtake.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Off-takes, all deductions retained from the men's wages for house-rent, house-coal, doctor's fees, tool-sharpening, closed lights, etc.