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.
To lift; to grasp and raise.
To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
To collect and detain (a suspect).
To clean up; to return to an organized state.
To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
To receive calls; to function correctly.
To record; to notch up.
To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
To collect an object, especially in passing.
To answer a telephone.
To take control (physically) of something.
To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
To restart or resume.
To receive (a radio signal or the like).
To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
To improve, increase, or speed up.
To reduce the despondency of.
To pay for.
To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
To collect a passenger.