Definition of gather

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

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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..
Vintage :: Vintage (n.) The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season..
Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted..
Induction :: Induction (n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction..
Sponger :: Sponger (n.) One employed in gathering sponges.
Harvest :: Harvest (v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop..
Oystering :: Oystering (n.) Gathering, or dredging for, oysters..
Sheaf :: Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat..
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..
Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
Foregather :: Foregather (v. i.) Same as Forgather.
Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like..
Gathering :: Gathering (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.
Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment..
Collection :: Collection (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings..
Dredge :: Dredge (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
Canticoy :: Canticoy (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing..
Straw :: Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..
Conglobulate :: Conglobulate (v. i.) To gather into a small round mass.
Gathering :: Gathering (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
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