gather

Forms

1.To collect normally separate things.
- Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.
- People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
2.To bring parts of a whole closer.
- Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
- A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
3.To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
- I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
4.To be filled with pus
- Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.

1.A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
2.The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
3.A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
4.The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.

Common· #1633

From Middle English gaderen

From Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”)

From Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”)

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).