[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gather \gath"er\ ga^th"~er, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   gathered; p. pr.  vb. n. gathering. oe. gaderen, as.
   gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gaed
   fellowship; akin to e. good, d. gaderen to collect, g. gatte
   husband, mhg. gate, also companion, goth. gadiliggs a
   sister's son. root29. see good, and cf. together.
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   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.
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            and belgium's capital had gathered them
            her beauty and her chivalry.          --byron.
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            when he had gathered all the chief priests and
            scribes of the people together.       --matt. ii. 4.
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   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.
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            a rose just gathered from the stalk.  --dryden.
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            do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
                                                  --matt. vii.
                                                  16.
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            gather us from among the heathen.     --ps. cvi. 47.
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   3. to accumulate by collecting and saving little by little;
      to amass; to gain; to heap up.
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            he that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his
            substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity
            the poor.                             --prov.
                                                  xxviii. 8.
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            to pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by
            degrees.                              --locke.
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   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.
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            gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
            in act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
                                                  --pope.
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   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.
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            let me say no more
            gather the sequel by that went before. --shak.
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   6. to gain; to win. obs.
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            he gathers ground upon her in the chase. --dryden.
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   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.
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   8. naut. to haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of
      a rope.
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   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.
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see also:
gathered gathering good together to be gathered to one's people to be gathered to one's fathers 
to gather breath to gather one's self together to gather way 

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