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Gathering   /gˈæðərɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Gathering  n.  
1.
The act of collecting or bringing together.
2.
That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as:
(a)
A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
(b)
A charitable contribution; a collection.
(c)
A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.


verb
Gather  v. t.  (past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)  
1.
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. "And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry." "When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together."
2.
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. "A rose just gathered from the stalk." "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" "Gather us from among the heathen."
3.
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." "To pay the creditor... he must gather up money by degrees."
4.
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. "Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand."
5.
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. "Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before."
6.
To gain; to win. (Obs.) "He gathers ground upon her in the chase."
7.
(Arch.) 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.
8.
(Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die.
To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest.
To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.


Gather  v. i.  
1.
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. "When small humors gather to a gout." "Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes."
2.
To grow larger by accretion; to increase. "Their snowball did not gather as it went."
3.
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
4.
To collect or bring things together. "Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed."


adjective
Gathering  adj.  Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
Gathering peat.
(a)
A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire.
(b)
In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.





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"Gathering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the castello. As he mounted the road briskly a goat-herd, flat upon his back in the sun, was piping some haunting air; a tinkle of bells came from the hillside, the vines were purple with fruit. Women were busy in the vineyards gathering their burdens and bearing them to the tubs for the white feet of the ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... apples. All the young people and women were busy gathering the pretty golden-yellow, brown, and crimson fruit. It lay in pyramids on the green turf, like cannon-balls inside a fortress. Joyous cries resounded through the island; when the sun set, a bell gave the signal for ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... Cricket didn't spend all his time merely sitting quietly in his hole, in the daytime—and fiddling every night. Of course he had to eat. And each night he was in the habit of creeping out of his hole and gathering spears of grass in Farmer Green's yard, which he carried ...
— The Tale of Chirpy Cricket • Arthur Scott Bailey
... order, but to remonstrances from the whites the usual reply was: "De word done sent to de League. We got to go." For special meetings the Negroes were in some regions called together by signal guns. In this way the call for a gathering went out over a county in a few minutes and a few hours later nearly all the members in the county ...
— The Sequel of Appomattox - A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, Volume 32 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Walter Lynwood Fleming
... were present with unwonted vividness. Then came the recollection of blessed re-unions on the annual Thanksgiving festival. The rush of returning memories was too strong for the poor, weak, depressed wanderer from home and happiness. He felt the waters of repentance gathering in his eyes; and he drew his hand suddenly across them, with an instinctive effort to check their flow. But a fountain, long sealed, had been touched; and, ere he was more than half aware of the tendency of his feelings, a tear came forth and rested on his cheek. ...
— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur


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