According to the Oxford English Dictionary, glance is defined as "take a brief or hurried look" (OED 2013).
Took a quick look is the past tense. It is the past tense of take a quick look. Take a quick look means to look at something quickly. Took a quick look means it happened in the past. eg Can you take a quick look at my essay and tell me what you think? I took a quick look at his essay and I don't think he has written enough.
the boy took a quick glimpse at the clock on the wall.
glance, peek
look it book it basically anything with the double o
Glanced is similar in meaning to glanced, which means to take a brief or quick look.
We weren't going anywhere in particular, we just took the car out for a quick jaunt through the countryside.
Other words are glance, peep. peek.
To take a quick look.
Quick
Quick Look was created on 2007-10-26.
Be Quick 1887
Quick = mahír (מהיר)