present participle of gather dust

simple past tense and past participle of gather dust

A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.

Of or pertaining to hunter-gatherers.

(nautical, idiomatic) To begin to move; to move with increasing speed; to get headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm.

(bookbinding) A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.

A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.

A lighted coal left smothered in embers overnight, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.

(computing) Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.

(idiomatic) To enjoy life's immediate pleasures; to behave in a relaxed, carefree manner.