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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.
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The act of assembling, collecting, or making a collection, as of money.
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That which is gathered together.
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A crowd; an assembly; specifically, a concourse of spectators or participants for some purpose of common interest.
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A collection or assemblage of anything; a contribution.
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An inflamed and suppurating swelling.
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A wooden construction about a scuttle in a roof.
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In building, a contraction of any passage, as of a drain, or of a fireplace at its junction with the flue.
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The act of making gathers, or of giving shape to a garment, as a skirt, by means of gathers.
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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.
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The collection in proper order of the folded sections, plates, or maps of an unbound book or pamphlet.