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.

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.

Capable of being gathered or collected. / Deducible from premises.

plural of gatherer

That gathers together.

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. / A group of people or things. / (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

present participle of gather

simple past tense and past participle of gather

(Quakerism) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.

A person who gathers things. / A person who collects rent or taxes. / (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.