To gather, collect.
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
To kill (animals etc).
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
A lobster having only one claw.
A selection.
An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
An organised killing of selected animals.
A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
To congregate, or assemble.
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.
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 add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
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.