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(informal) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.

To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

(slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

To steal.

To adopt.

(slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.

(of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.

(informal) A police officer or prison guard. +

(spider) (obsolete) A spider.

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

{{rfv-sense|en}} (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself. (15th c.)

A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

(merlon)(military) A merlon.