A large number of people.
A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.herd/flock
Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
A religious congregation.
A lock of wool or hair.
To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
A gathering.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
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.
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 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.