What does it mean "to brush one's hand and take it"? Full sentence is like this: "In the end he sat with the windbreaker pulled up, brushed with his hands and took it, almost crying in frustration and agony." This is about a boy in a wild forest alone, since his plane crashed. He is being attacked by mosquitoes, so quoted sentence above describes how he try to protect himself from insects. I figured out what "the windbreaker pulled up" and guessed that "to brush with his hands" means "to shake his hands lIke wipders", but "to take it" is totally alien to me. Somebody helps me ;ㅅ;