Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Take-off \Take"-off`\, n.
   The spot at which one takes off; specif., the place from
   which a jumper rises in leaping.

         The take-off should be selected with great care, and a
         pit of large dimensions provided on the landing side.
                                                  --Encyc. of
                                                  Sport.

Take-off \Take"-off`\, n.
   An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.