What is "to take keep"

Keep \Keep\, n.

1. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
   --Chaucer.

   Pan, thou god of shepherds all, Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.
   --Spenser.

2. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.

3. The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse.

   Grass equal to the keep of seven cows.
   --Carlyle.

   I performed some services to the college in return for my keep.
   --T. Hughes.

4. That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the dungeon. See Illust. of Castle.

   The prison strong, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid.
   --Dryden.

   The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps.
   --Hallam.

   I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circle kept, abode, or lived there.
   --M. A. Lower.

5. That which is kept in charge; a charge. [Obs.]

   Often he used of his keep A sacrifice to bring.
   --Spenser.

6. (Mach.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.

   To take keep, to take care; to heed. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.