To gather fabric into folds.
To be gathered together in folds
To form a bunch.
To protrude or swell
To gather into a bunch.
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
An informal body of friends.
A considerable amount.
A group of logs tied together for skidding.
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
An unmentioned amount; a number.
An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To gain; to win.
To be filled with pus
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.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.