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Definition of gather

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Gather (v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle..

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Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

Pick :: Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc..

Muster :: Muster (v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.

Compilation :: Compilation (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents..

Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..

Cluster :: Cluster (v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.

Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch..

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..

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..

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To gain; to win.

Gather :: Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered..

Frounce :: Frounce (v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair..

Congregate :: Congregate (v. t.) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact..

Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..

Segregation :: Segregation (n.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process..

Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of metal (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe..

Bookmaker :: Bookmaker (n.) One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler..

Harvest-home :: Harvest-home (n.) The opportunity of gathering treasure.

Gathering :: Gathering (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together.

Crop :: Crop (n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest..