What is the meaning of うけ?

受け, 請け: reception, reaction, appreciation

受け: bottom ; uke

受け: the state of being a mark with an 空き (aki) after it, such as the closing parenthesis , the closing quotation mark , the ideographic comma or the ideographic full stop

imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of 受ける (ukeru) [ichidan]

Source: wiktionary.org