Definitions for the word "gather" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To gain; to win.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. i.
To collect or bring things together.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. v.
1 bring or come together; accumulate. 2 pick or collect as harvest. 3 infer or deduce. 4 a increase (gather speed). B collect (gather dust). 5 summon up (energy etc.). 6 draw together in folds or wrinkles. 7 (often as gathering adj.) Come to a head (gathering storm).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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