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  • English Word Gatewise Definition In the manner of a gate.
  • English Word Gather Definition 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.
  • English Word Gather Definition 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.
  • English Word Gather Definition To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
  • English Word Gather Definition 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.
  • English Word Gather Definition To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
  • English Word Gather Definition To gain; to win.
  • English Word Gather Definition 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.
  • English Word Gather Definition To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
  • English Word Gather Definition To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
  • English Word Gather Definition To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
  • English Word Gather Definition To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
  • English Word Gather Definition To collect or bring things together.
  • English Word Gather Definition A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  • English Word Gather Definition The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  • English Word Gather Definition The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
  • English Word Gatherable Definition Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.
  • English Word Gathered Definition of Gather
  • English Word Gatherer Definition One who gathers or collects.
  • English Word Gatherer Definition An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
  • English Word Gathering Definition of Gather
  • English Word Gathering Definition The act of collecting or bringing together.
  • English Word Gathering Definition That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
  • English Word Gathering Definition A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
  • English Word Gathering Definition A charitable contribution; a collection.
  • English Word Gathering Definition A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
  • English Word Gathering Definition Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
  • English Word Gatling gun Definition An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.
  • English Word Gatten tree Definition A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus).
  • English Word Gauche Definition Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.