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Shirr :: Shirr (n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging..

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate..

Gather :: Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

Conglobe :: Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

Reap :: Reap (v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly..

Clambake :: Clambake (n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion..

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..

Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering..

Pulu :: Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..

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

Cumulate :: Cumulate (v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (a.) Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

Nucleate :: Nucleate (v. t.) To gather, as about a nucleus or center..

Glomerous :: Glomerous (a.) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.

Canticoy :: Canticoy (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing..

Picker :: Picker (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker..

Berrying :: Berrying (n.) A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild..

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