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Ingathering

Ingathering \In"gath`er*ing\, n. The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.

Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering.
--Ex. xxii. 16.

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ingathering

n. The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest vb. (present participle of ingather English)

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ingathering

n. request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" [syn: solicitation, appeal, collection]

Usage examples of "ingathering".

Now therefore shall they and I together earn the merry days to come, the winter hunting and the spring sowing, the summer haysel, the ingathering of harvest, the happy rest of midwinter, and Yuletide with the memory of the Fathers, wedded to the hope of the days to be.

For some time before, there had been an ingathering among us of sailor lads from the neighbouring ports, who on their arrival, in order to shun the pressgangs, left their vessels and came to scog themselves with us.

Being, on the contrary, always suggested, as I say, by the vorticial movements about centres, a reason for it, also--a cause for the ingathering of all the orbs into one, imagined to be already existing--was naturally sought in the same direction, among these cyclic movements themselves.

Lizzie no longer had to demand to be included in the political sessions during these ingatherings at Silver Spring.