Definition of gather

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Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck..

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Organ :: Organ (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government..
Scrapepenny :: Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
Amass :: Amass (v. t.) To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases..
Re-collect :: Re-collect (v. t.) To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops..
Lease :: Lease (v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..
Muster :: Muster (v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
Ball :: Ball (v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls..
Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck..
Gatherable :: Gatherable (a.) Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.
Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..
Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town..
Omnium-gatherum :: Omnium-gatherum (n.) A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley.
Glean :: Glean (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
Hive :: Hive (v. t.) To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store..
Reap :: Reap (v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions..
Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom..
Taxgatherer :: Taxgatherer (n.) One who collects taxes or revenues.
Collection :: Collection (n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
Florilege :: Florilege (n.) The act of gathering flowers.
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