gather🔊

To collect normally separate things.

Especially, to harvest food.

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

To congregate, or assemble. +

To grow gradually larger by accretion.

To bring parts of a whole closer.

(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

(architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.

(nautical) To haul in; to take up.

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

(medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

To gain; to win.

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

The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

(masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering.

(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

A gathering.