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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gather
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crowd gathers
▪ A large crowd had gathered to watch the procession go past.
bring in/gather in the harvest (also get in the harvest) (= collect the crops from the fields)
▪ They were working late into the night to get the harvest in.
clouds gather/form
▪ The sky had darkened and clouds had gathered.
collect/gather information
▪ The job consisted of gathering information about consumer needs.
compile/collect/gather statistics
▪ Police have not yet compiled statistics for this year.
gain/gather/build up momentum (=become more and more successful)
▪ The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.
gain/gather/pick up speed (=go faster)
▪ The Mercedes was gradually picking up speed.
gather pace (=happen more quickly)
▪ Support for the campaign is gathering pace.
gather/collect dust (=become covered with dust)
▪ Piles of old books lay on the floor gathering dust.
gather/collect evidence
▪ Police experts are still collecting evidence at the scene of the crime.
gathering/growing darknessliterary (= night that is slowly coming)
▪ The garden was almost invisible now in the gathering darkness.
gather/muster/summon your strength (=get enough strength to do something)
▪ He sat for a couple of minutes, gathering his strength.
Storm clouds are gathering
▪ Storm clouds are gathering over the trade negotiations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ The water-power age produced hamlets, at the most small villages, gathered around a new mill.
▪ Later, while dancing, Johnson slipped and fell to the floor, and the curious gathered around.
▪ People gathered around him like a Pied Piper.
▪ A thousand people, mostly men, gathered around the grate one day last spring to witness a double execution.
▪ Adults gathered around to watch, some to rinse themselves off.
▪ At the back of the beach, where sand mingled with scrub, some fifty people were gathered around cars and trailers.
here
▪ Now, unless I am mistaken, those partisans of anti-cruelty or pro-welfare who are gathered here also accept these same aspirations.
▪ Even Republican governors, who had gathered here to give the candidate advice on Tuesday, were unaware of the decision.
▪ There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier.
▪ No one had seen or heard ladies gather here to watch.
▪ Bankers, churchmen and scholars gathered here to serve the King's Court.
▪ The gathering here was the latest in a long line of intergovernmental efforts to combat the menace.
round
▪ The servants had theirs at two, gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen.
▪ People gathered round, prodding her for news.
▪ Ten or more passengers - all men, some in western dress and others in robes - gathered round singing and clapping.
▪ An unprecedented crowd, with quite a few strange faces, had gathered round the church door before the afternoon service.
▪ It was hardly surprising that many among that particular audience immediately recognised him and gathered round.
▪ To my great surprise, the television crews gathered round in order to interview me about my project.
▪ We gathered round the boat with all the sense of adventure of Drake rounding the Horn.
▪ We gathered round a large table to discuss our losses.
together
▪ She was still gathering together the finance she needed.
▪ Where we can have some privacy, but where we can gather together as a family at meals and in the evenings.
▪ You will then need to gather together the necessary things to make an application.
▪ They would gather together, without husbands, would-be husbands, or bring-home work.
▪ Hard work but just as much a social occasion for everyone to gather together.
▪ Small groups of teen-agers also were gathered together at five sites around the country to discuss their attitudes about high school.
▪ It is this insight that is recalled every time Christians have gathered together and broken bread and shred the cup.
up
▪ He gathered up his papers and walked with brisk dignity towards the steps that led down from the platform.
▪ So Mark gathered up his courage and talked to his supervisor one April morning.
▪ Using a teaspoon, fill the trout turban. Gather up four corners of filo, twist into a bundle.
▪ Forty-four little hands gather up coats and lunch boxes and forty-four little feet head down the hall to go home.
▪ When they'd gone Maggie gathered up the rest of the dishes and piled them in the sink.
▪ Hubbard sputtered, gathering up the papers.
▪ He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.
▪ He walked to the corner, gathering up his long Marine coat, doing up the buttons and neck flap.
■ NOUN
cloud
▪ The sky had darkened, clouds had gathered, and birds were returning, flying in belatedly to feed their chicks.
▪ And out in the world, new storm clouds were gathering.
▪ By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
▪ As he gazes from his White House window Clinton sees clouds gathering on the horizon and dimming his shining hour.
▪ As they drew close to the outskirts of Chichester itself rain clouds were gathering.
▪ Last year, the storm clouds gathered.
▪ But suddenly the storm clouds are gathering.
▪ For others the clouds might gather and the rains fall, but never for Maurice and those around him.
crowd
▪ A big crowd started to gather as Greg got on a real head of steam.
▪ They came upon a small crowd gathered around a long wooden table that had posters of Sophia Loren hanging along the front.
▪ An 80-strong crowd gathered in the street outside, some jeering as the convoy whisked away.
▪ A crowd had gathered in the corner.
▪ A crowd of beggar children gathered to watch beyond the garden wall, but from the house itself there was no response.
▪ An angry crowd gathered, confronting the police, who showed little interest in dispersing them, and began taunting the marshals.
▪ Members of a crowd which gathered around the bus joined in, and four of the soldiers were beaten to death.
▪ The crowd has been steadily gathering and now extends out into the drive.
data
▪ Test data was gathered by random selection from each domain until the target of approximately 17 sentences per domain had been met.
▪ More recent data gathered in the six years since provides us with a realistic picture of the crisis we confront.
▪ Without them some data gathered in orbit will have nowhere to go.
▪ In community surveys a specific set of field instructions should be given to each interviewer before data are gathered.
▪ Generally there should be some question which asks pupils to synthesise the data they have gathered at different parts of the site.
▪ It often involves hard choices, not to mention extensive data gathering and analysis.
▪ The data gathered for the exercise clearly reflect the now very considerable research strength and performance that we possess.
▪ Defines evaluation criteria 1 Describes data gathering methods.
evidence
▪ John Night Sky, you must visit a variety of colorful crime scenes, gathering evidence and interviewing suspects and witnesses.
▪ Greenpeace claim that the Authority is failing in its statutory duty to gather the necessary evidence to enforce the law.
▪ The object is to gather enough evidence and sift through all the forensics information needed to write an acceptable arrest warrant.
▪ She first gathered her evidence from women's groups who worked with rape victims during the war.
▪ Investigators were still on the scene late Saturday gathering evidence and testing the waters.
▪ They've hired a firm of solicitors and an investigator to gather evidence.
▪ I took some pictures of the place, as if to gather evidence.
family
▪ She felt a sense of unreality until all the family except Tony gathered round the wireless set.
▪ The family and I gathered around his hospital bed.
▪ Like families gathered at Christmas, social animals are poised between cooperation and conflict.
▪ Tara Turner, 27, was shot in the head Saturday at a family gathering in her home, police said.
▪ He liked to come in and find the family gathered under one roof.
▪ And my cousins will be reminded of this at every family gathering.
▪ Friends and family gathered to hear tributes to Richard Miles.
▪ Think of it as singing at a family gathering.
group
▪ Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered, staring and leering at the nude painting.
▪ Then each group gathers to discuss the work and explore ways to present it to the rest of the class.
▪ That evening, as the sun sank over the marsh and the sea an odd group gathered in the dusk.
▪ By ten, Joette has finished with reading groups and they all gather back at the rug.
▪ A group of people were gathered at a mill two blocks away.
▪ One-thirty finds the group in their familiar gathering place, on the rug in a circle.
▪ A group of spectators had gathered like vultures on the pavement.
▪ A group of silent people gathered slowly near the place where they stopped the Land-Rover.
information
▪ The information will be gathered in 4 city centre retail and catering firms and 3 sixth form colleges in Swansea.
▪ Or that any newscast or print publication has room to or should present every shard of information it gathers on every story?
▪ The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid.
▪ Information brokerages dispatch agents capable of information resource gathering, negotiating deals, and performing transactions.
▪ Few people, however, are aware of how object-related information is generated, gathered, structured and subsequently applied.
▪ And in some cases, the information gathering exercise itself has its benefits.
▪ Corbett tried to think back, unravelling the skein of information he had gathered.
▪ Sections 5.2 and 5.4 show how such statistical information can easily be gathered by running automatic graph-searching procedures over the Chart output.
intelligence
▪ The arcane field of intelligence gathering may prove him wrong, says Charles Grant.
▪ Headley also illustrates what could happen if operational intelligence was rapidly gathered and acted upon.
▪ It is vital that a reformulated strategy be built upon better intelligence gathering and better coordination of intelligence between agencies.
material
▪ Yanto was using his fingers to gather the fine silky material.
▪ Manion and the rest of the management team were still gathering up their materials when Katherine reentered the boardroom.
▪ Local people will be trained to gather plants and other materials which may have economic potential.
▪ Fifty years to gather the raw material.
▪ In Chapter 2 we looked at sources of information and at how to gather material.
▪ It aimed to gather material on consumer perspectives on shopping, which would provide a basis for advice given to local co-operatives.
momentum
▪ I waited for it to gather momentum.
▪ The strikes continue to gather momentum.
▪ Nevertheless, the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum.
▪ About the time this outcry was gathering momentum, a curve ball landed like a left hook.
▪ Such is the delight that people take in seeking out follies at weekends that the Fellowship has quickly gathered momentum.
▪ The principle that nature worked by the simplest means was gathering momentum during the thirteenth century.
▪ The middle-school initiative, as it gathered momentum in the 1960s, was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology.
people
▪ The atmosphere is badly wrong. People are gathered there.
▪ Today, people do not gather and choose their great leaders from among themselves.
▪ That moment was watched by 750 million people gathered around television sets in more than seventy countries.
▪ That night in 1986, hundreds of people gathered at Southside Presbyterian Church as planned.
▪ Around 30 people gathered for the ceremony which was organised by Families Acting for Innocent Relatives.
▪ As many as 25,000 people gathered in San Cristobal to see off the caravan.
▪ A crowd of Deep Water People gathered around us.
signature
▪ It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures.
▪ They gather nominating petition signatures for lawmakers, raise money for them and sometimes even run their re-election campaigns.
▪ Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand.
▪ She's gathered 18,000 signatures in Swindon on a petition protesting about the fuel tax.
▪ The group also filed a proposed district map and request for a petition to begin gathering signatures.
▪ The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition.
▪ To force an election, the union must gather the signatures of a majority of employees.
storm
▪ But suddenly the storm clouds are gathering.
▪ We were bumping along a dirt road when a storm gathered dark clouds above us.
▪ The morning sky was blue as yet but storm clouds were gathering and the wind seemed on the change.
▪ And out in the world, new storm clouds were gathering.
▪ The Hidatsa rushed eagerly into hail storms and gathered hail stones to cool their tepid Missouri River drinking water.
▪ Last year, the storm clouds gathered.
wit
▪ It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
▪ I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
▪ He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
▪ She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
woman
▪ We can not even assume that only men hunted and only women gathered plants.
▪ The elder of these two women was gathering wild flowers, exclaiming as she did so.
▪ According to the military report, the presence of the troops reassured a small group of white women and children gathered there.
▪ And in the village of Marlott, following ancient custom, the young women gathered to dance every holiday.
▪ In both, women gathered to make confessions about their lives and find support from other women for changes they were making.
▪ The women and young girls gather and sing songs.
▪ The women gather and prepare food, as well as bear, nurture, and raise children.
■ VERB
begin
▪ But she began to gather their limbs together and put them in order, head, body, arms and legs.
▪ Mosquitoes began to gather, and Gary and I rolled our sleeves down to protect our arms.
▪ Without saying a word she began to gather up her pieces of paper.
▪ The group also filed a proposed district map and request for a petition to begin gathering signatures.
▪ Jean-Pierre began to gather up his instruments and put them into his bag.
▪ Inevitably the hordes began to gather.
▪ Each began to gather troops and to borrow money from usurers.
▪ He got up, extended his hand, and pulled Ted up, and together they began to gather their gear.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gather/collect/recover etc your wits
▪ He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
▪ I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
▪ I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.
▪ It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
▪ She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
intelligence/information etc gathering
▪ And in some cases, the information gathering exercise itself has its benefits.
▪ Army intelligence supervised most of the information gathering and army technicians handled much of the technical work.
▪ But in the mid-1970s there was an acrimonious conflict between the different intelligence gathering agencies in the province.
▪ For once in the treacherous business of intelligence gathering, the question of mutual trust had been answered on sight.
▪ He helped suppress the Matabele rising in 1896, and learned the elements of scouting and intelligence gathering.
▪ It is vital that a reformulated strategy be built upon better intelligence gathering and better coordination of intelligence between agencies.
▪ It would seem that much effort up to now has focused upon information gathering to the neglect of the other two processes.
▪ The arcane field of intelligence gathering may prove him wrong, says Charles Grant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Gather the material and baste it.
▪ A crowd gathered around to watch the fight.
▪ A group of elderly folks gather daily at the senior center to sing songs.
▪ A small crowd gathered to watch the fight.
▪ Angry workers were gathering on the steps of City Hall.
▪ By the time the president arrived, a large crowd had gathered.
▪ Computers make it far easier to gather information.
▪ Despite my limited Spanish, I gathered that there was a problem with my passport.
▪ Eager fans are already gathering outside the stadium.
▪ From what I can gather, there has been fighting further down the valley.
▪ Grandma gathered her scarf around her neck as she went out the door.
▪ Harry was afraid. Sweat gathered on his upper lip.
▪ I gather you've decided not to resign after all.
▪ Jack was not happy about the news, I gather.
▪ Many of the plants in the gardens were gathered on trips to Japan and China.
▪ Snow gathered thickly in the folds of their clothes.
▪ Some hospitals are using twins to gather information on a variety of diseases.
▪ Some of the men gathered firewood while others made a fire.
▪ The family gathered on the porch to say goodbye.
▪ There were gaps between the floorboards where dust and bits of grime had gathered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As many as 25,000 people gathered in San Cristobal to see off the caravan.
▪ But never forget that your mission is greater than the gathering of such requirements along the way.
▪ On the psychiatric ward, Muetzel and the others gathered themselves and then the patients to search for a way out.
▪ The traders joined him, in a show of support, gathering the garbage cans from across the trading floor.
▪ We gathered round the boat with all the sense of adventure of Drake rounding the Horn.
▪ You had to search through half the estate to gather a pound of coffee for 2 colones.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
information
▪ You could ask different lenders what they could offer you, or gather information from the Net.
▪ Appointed by the mayor and council, the committee has been a boon in helping elected officials gather information and set priorities.
▪ Houk was in Trinidad in 1988 to gather information for his anthropology dissertation, which he completed in 1992.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rolling stone gathers no moss
gather/collect/recover etc your wits
▪ He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
▪ I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
▪ I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.
▪ It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
▪ She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gather

Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See Good, and cf. Together.]

  1. 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.

    And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry.
    --Byron.

    When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.
    --Matt. ii. 4.

  2. 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.

    A rose just gathered from the stalk.
    --Dryden.

    Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
    --Matt. vii. 16.

    Gather us from among the heathen.
    --Ps. cvi. 47.

  3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

    He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
    --Prov. xxviii. 8.

    To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.
    --Locke.

  4. 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.

    Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
    --Pope.

  5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

    Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.
    --Shak.

  6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]

    He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
    --Dryden.

  7. (Arch.) 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.

  8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

    To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die.
    --Gen. xxv. 8.

    To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest.
    --Spenser.

    To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.

    To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.

Gather

Gather \Gath"er\, v. i.

  1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

    When small humors gather to a gout.
    --Pope.

    Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
    --Tennyson.

  2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

    Their snowball did not gather as it went.
    --Bacon.

  3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

  4. To collect or bring things together.

    Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.
    --Matt. xxv. 26.

Gather

Gather \Gath"er\, n.

  1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

  2. (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

  3. (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gather

Old English gadrian, gædrian "unite, agree, assemble; gather, collect, store up," used of flowers, thoughts, persons; from Proto-Germanic *gadurojan "bring together, unite" (cognates: Old English gæd "fellowship, companionship," gædeling "companion;" Middle Low German gadderen; Old Frisian gaderia; Dutch gaderen "to gather," gade "spouse;" German Gatte "husband;" Gothic gadiliggs), from PIE *ghedh- "to unite, join" (see good (adj.)). Change of spelling from -d- to -th- is 1500s, reflecting earlier change in pronunciation. Related: Gathered; gathering.

Wiktionary
gather

n. 1 A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 2 The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 3 The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). 4 (context glassblowing English) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. vb. 1 To collect; normally separate things. 2 # Especially, to harvest food. 3 # To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 4 # (context intransitive English) To congregate, or assemble. 5 # (context intransitive English) To grow gradually larger by accretion. 6 To bring parts of a whole closer. 7 # (context sewing English) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. 8 # (context knitting English) To bring stitches closer together. 9 # (context architecture English) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue. 10 # (context nautical English) To haul in; to take up. 11 To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 12 (context intransitive medicine of a boil or sore English) To be filled with pus 13 (context glassblowing English) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 14 To gain; to win.

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WordNet
gather

  1. n. sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: gathering]

  2. the act of gathering something [syn: gathering]

gather

  1. v. assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: garner, collect, pull together] [ant: spread]

  2. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, assemble, forgather, foregather]

  3. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, amass]

  4. conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"

  5. draw fabric together and sew it tightly [syn: pucker, tuck]

  6. get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" [syn: assemble, get together]

  7. look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"

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Wikipedia
Gather

Gather, gatherer, or gathering may refer to:

In anthropology and sociology:

  • Hunter-gatherer, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods
  • Intensive gathering, the practice of cultivating wild plants as a step toward domestication
  • Harvesting crops

In the arts:

  • Global gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom
  • Ricochet Gathering, a music event in the United States
  • Tribal Gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom

Other uses:

  • Gather (sewing), an area where fabric is folded or bunched together with thread or yarn
  • Gather (knitting), a generic term for one of several knitting techniques to draw stitches closer together
  • Gather.com, a social networking website
  • Gathering (bookbinding), a number of sheets of paper folded and sewn or glued as a group into a bookbinding
  • Gathering of Developers, sometimes called as 'Gathering'
  • Rag gatherer, an archaic occupation, also known as rag picker
  • Gathering, any type of party or meeting, including:
    • Bee (gathering), an old term which describes a group of people coming together for a task
    • Salon (gathering), a party associated with French and Italian intellectuals
Gather (knitting)

In knitting, a gather is a generic term for the several methods that draw stitches closer together laterally, i.e., within a row of knitting. Common methods include:

  • In binding, a yarn loop is passed over 2 or more stitches in the same row (usually adjacent to the binding loop); also known as a pullover stitch.
  • In clustering, the yarn is wound laterally around a set of stitches in the same row, possibly several times; also known as a wrap stitch.
  • Smocking is a sewing or embroidery technique in which the tiny pleats are drawn together with thread or yarn. Before the development of elastic, smocking was used to provide a stretchable, flexible panel of fabric.
Gather (sewing)

Gathering is a sewing technique for shortening the length of a strip of fabric so that the longer piece can be attached to a shorter piece. It is commonly used in clothing to manage fullness, as when a full sleeve is attached to the armscye or cuff of a shirt, or when a skirt is attached to a bodice.

In simple gathering, parallel rows of running stitches are sewn along one edge of the fabric to be gathered. The stitching threads are then pulled or "drawn up" so that the fabric forms small folds along the threads.

Gathering seams once involved tedious hand sewing of basting, which was time consuming and inefficient, especially with heavy fabric. Now, a quick and easy way to make a gather is to use a wide zigzag stitch with a sewing machine. Both the upper and lower thread are pulled long and placed in front of the sewing machine. Then zigzagging is carefully sewed over top of the two threads without catching the threads as it is sewn. At the end the thread is pulled and is then gathered.

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Usage examples of "gather".

Dale of the Tower: there shall we abide a while to gather victual, a day or two, or three maybe: so my Lord will hold a tourney there: that is to say that I myself and some few others shall try thy manhood somewhat.

Then, very slowly, very gently, he gathered myself and Achates in his arms, and held us tight.

The gathering clouds parted briefly and a crescent moon flooded the bay with a brilliant, achromatic light.

Lizzie who sat patiently on a stile, holding the bunch of green-veined snow-drops and yellow aconites she had gathered as they wandered.

The abbe being intimately acquainted with them, I gathered from him all the information I required, and, amongst other things, I heard that the young countess had a brother, then an officer in the papal service.

Then the United States would no longer have been dependent on proxies to gather actionable intelligence.

Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.

Under their stimulating influence the Convention was eager to begin the balloting, but the gathering shades of evening compelled an adjournment to the next morning.

The Adjutors had been winning steadily for the past thirty years, gathering more and more power and influence to themselves.

Hispanic field workers have gathered in front of the admin building and are yelling something about better housing and recreation facilities.

Celestial Spirit but God, as knowing no admixture, gathered cleanly within itself.

Above the fog banks a wrack of cloud had gathered, the aerophane was coated with a glittering mist.

Whatever she was going to do with it she must do it straightaway because she had to gather the herbs and then get home afore her da got back.

Such was the way of the Mother, Aganippe thought, sending us forth from the womb, then gathering us back to her when we are done.

We are going through Agen, where I hope to gather such news, of the movements of the Catholic troops, as may be of use to her.