To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
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.
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 issue (something) in large quantities.
To have rain fall from the sky.
To fall as or like rain.
Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
Condensed water falling from a cloud.
An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.