(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.

plural of gathering hoop

plural of gathering coal

plural of gathering board

plural of wool-gathering

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