Gathering

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The action of one that gathers.
  • noun. That which is gathered or amassed; a collection or accumulation.
  • noun. An assembly of persons; a meeting.
  • noun. The collecting of food that grows wild, such as berries, roots, and grains.
  • noun. A gather in cloth.
  • noun. A suppurated swelling; a boil or abscess.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In agriculture, plowing back and forth around the crown of an existing ridge of land, thus turning all the furrow-slices inward and increasing the height of the ridge.
  • noun. The act of assembling, collecting, or making a collection, as of money.
  • noun. That which is gathered together.
  • noun. A crowd; an assembly; specifically, a concourse of spectators or participants for some purpose of common interest.
  • noun. A collection or assemblage of anything; a contribution.
  • noun. An inflamed and suppurating swelling.
  • noun. A wooden construction about a scuttle in a roof.
  • noun. In building, a contraction of any passage, as of a drain, or of a fireplace at its junction with the flue.
  • noun. The act of making gathers, or of giving shape to a garment, as a skirt, by means of gathers.
  • noun. In glass manufacturing, the act of coiling or collecting a mass of molten glass in the viscous state on the end of a rod or tube.
  • noun. The collection in proper order of the folded sections, plates, or maps of an unbound book or pamphlet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of collecting or bringing together.
  • noun. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together.
  • noun. A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
  • noun. A charitable contribution; a collection.
  • noun. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
  • adjective. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
  • adjective. a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
  • adjective. a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
  • adjective. a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
  • adjective. In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
  • noun. A group of people or things.
  • noun. A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
  • verb. present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the social act of assembling
  • noun. sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
  • noun. a group of persons together in one place
  • noun. the act of gathering something