gather vs spit

gather

verb
  • 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. 

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. 

spit

verb
  • To dig, to spade. 

  • To utter (something) violently. 

  • To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit. 

  • To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough. 

  • To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. 

  • To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. 

  • To rap, to utter. 

  • To plant (something) using a spade. 

  • (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth. 

  • To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth. 

  • To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat. 

  • To rain or snow slightly. 

noun
  • An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow. 

  • Synonym of slam (“card game”) 

  • A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. 

  • A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image). 

  • A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. 

  • Saliva, especially when expectorated. 

  • The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful. 

  • The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. 

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