Uptake

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] Wyclif. Spenser.