Prendre

To take. To take up, to take over. To catch. Tobe choked, fouled up, jammed. To set (of concrete or mortar). Prendre feu. To take fire, to catch fire—Prendre sous le feu. To take under fire.—Prendre d’enfilade (d’écharpe de revers). To take in enfilade (obliquely, in reverse),.— Prendre a part (a partie). To engage in order to neutralize (especially of artillery compelling the enemy’s guns to accept a duel).—Prendre d’a aut. To take by a ault.—Prendre les armes. ’To parade under arms.—Prendre le corps mort. To make fast, to moor.—Prendre fond. To bite, grip (of anchor).—Prendre terre. To land.—Prendre le large. To stand out tosea.—Prendresapartie. To take definite action. —Prendre les tranchées. To take over trenches.—Prendre la semaine. To go on duty for the week.—Prenant quatre ans. Rising four years (of a horse). [p.464]