Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TASK
TASK, v.t. [W. tasgu, to bind, to rate, to task, to spring, start, leap back, to urge.]
- To impose a task; to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor.
- To burden with some employment; to require to perform. There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden.
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