To bring together; to collect, as a number
of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to
assemble; to muster; to congregate.
To pick out and bring together from among
what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull;
to pick off; to pluck.
To accumulate by collecting and saving
little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
To bring closely together the parts or
particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or
plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by
a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a
ruffle.
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to
collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or
arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
To gain; to win.
To bring together, or
nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is
rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
To haul in; to take up; as,
to gather the slack of a rope.
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