To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
An act of throwing, often violently.
A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
A lively Scottish country dance.
An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
To haul in; to take up.
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 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 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.