'Gathering' definitions:

Definition of 'gathering'

From: WordNet
noun
A group of persons together in one place [syn: gathering, assemblage]
noun
The social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [syn: assembly, assemblage, gathering] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling]
noun
The act of gathering something [syn: gather, gathering]
noun
Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: gather, gathering]

Definition of 'Gathering'

From: GCIDE
  • Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See Good, and cf. Together.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • A rose just gathered from the stalk. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? --Matt. vii. 16. [1913 Webster]
  • Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. [1913 Webster]
  • He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. --Prov. xxviii. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. [1913 Webster]
  • Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To gain; to win. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Arch.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. [1913 Webster]
  • To be gathered to one's people or {To be gathered to one's fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8.
  • To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. --Spenser.
  • To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
  • To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gathering'

From: GCIDE
  • Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, n.
  • 1. The act of collecting or bringing together. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) A charitable contribution; a collection. (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gathering'

From: GCIDE
  • Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. [1913 Webster]
  • Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. --Knight.
  • Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
  • Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
  • Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders. [1913 Webster]

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