Definition of gather

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Gather (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker..

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Fair :: Fair (n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade..
Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment..
Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..
Run :: Run (a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body..
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..
Upgather :: Upgather (v. t.) To gather up; to contract; to draw together.
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money..
Drum :: Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for..
Crust :: Crust (v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
Brewing :: Brewing (n.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds..
Conglobe :: Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (n.) Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle..
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..
Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..
Harvest :: Harvest (v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop..
Throng :: Throng (v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes..
Collate :: Collate (v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding..
Gathering :: Gathering (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
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..
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