Especially, to harvest food.
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.
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.
To produce leaves or foliage.
To cause, to result in.
To let be or do without interference.
To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
To transfer possession of after death.
To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
Permission.