gathers

noun

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

The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

(masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.

(glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

A gathering.

verb

To collect normally separate things.

Especially, to harvest food.

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.

(intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

To bring parts of a whole closer.

(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

(architecture) 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.

(nautical) To haul in; to take up.

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

(intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

(glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

To gain; to win.

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