gather vs squirt

gather

noun
  • A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 

  • 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 plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 

verb
  • 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. 

squirt

noun
  • An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. 

  • A maneuver in which the boat is forced into a nearly vertical position. 

  • The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. 

  • A small child. 

  • An act of urination. 

  • Female ejaculate. 

  • An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper. 

  • A small, quick stream; a jet. 

  • A burst of noise. 

verb
  • To emit, eject or excrete (something). 

  • To ejaculate. 

  • To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of the boat is forced nearly vertical. 

  • To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. 

  • To hit with a rapid stream of liquid. 

  • To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. 

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