These are the meanings of the letters EAHGTR when you unscramble them.
- Gather (n.)
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- Gather (n.)
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- Gather (n.)
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
- Gather (v. i.)
To collect or bring things together.
- Gather (v. i.)
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- Gather (v. i.)
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
- Gather (v. i.)
To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- Gather (v. t.)
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
- Gather (v. t.)
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.
- Gather (v. t.)
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.
- Gather (v. t.)
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.
- Gather (v. t.)
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
- Gather (v. t.)
To gain; to win.
- Gather (v. t.)
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
- Gather (v. t.)
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.