gather vs reckon

gather

verb
  • To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

reckon

verb
  • To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause 

  • To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. 

  • To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. 

  • To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host 

  • To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. 

  • To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. 

  • To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. 

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