Usually means: Absorb, consume, or collect liquid.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (take water)

verb:  (now rare, historical) To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship.
verb:  As a person or animal, to go into a body of water and start swimming.
verb:  Of a vessel, to admit water through a leak or port or similar; to take in water.
verb:  (US, colloquial) To run away; to back down.
verb:  (rail transport, of steam locomotives) To top up the water tanks.

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