Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Take
Take (tāk), v. t. 1. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
2. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs. exc. Slang or Dial.]