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.
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 proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
The difference between the prices of two similar items.
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
The difference between bidding and asking price.
The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
The act of spreading.
An expanse of land.
Something that has been spread.
A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
A numerical difference.
The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.