To collect; normally separate things.
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 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 take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt.
To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously.
To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.