gather vs tuck

gather

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

  • 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. 

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. 

tuck

noun
  • A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. 

  • The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb. 

  • The beat of a drum. 

  • A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin. 

  • An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. 

  • A curled position. 

  • A curled position, with the shins held towards the body. 

  • The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail. 

verb
  • To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in. 

  • To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden. 

  • To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). 

  • To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb. 

  • To eat; to consume. 

  • To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape. 

  • To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs. 

  • To full, as cloth. 

  • To fit neatly. 

How often have the words gather and tuck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )