gather
- Verb. To collect; normally separate things.
- Verb. To bring parts of a whole closer.
- Verb. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- Verb. (intransitive, medicine) To be filled with pus.
- Verb. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- Noun. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- Noun. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- Noun. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- Noun. (context, glassblowing) A piece of molten glass colected on the end of a blowpipe.
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