Crossword clues for gatherer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gatherer \Gath"er*er\, n.
One who gathers or collects.
(Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, agent noun from gather.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who gathers things. 2 A person who collects rent or taxes. 3 (context textiles English) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
WordNet
n. a person who gathers; "they were a society of hunters and gatherers"
a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: collector, accumulator]
Usage examples of "gatherer".
They had sent letters of excuse claiming poor crops, banditry, plague, evil weather, and cheating tax gatherers.
In these restricted environments, if they existed at all, humans would have found it difficult to survive until deglaciation was sufficiently advanced to support adequate resources in the form of plants and animals essential to sustain groups of Hunters and gatherers.
He paused behind a root tangle in thigh deep water and rotated his shields through infra, light gatherer, and magnifier, picking a course through the next section of swamp.
He shivered and raised his infra, opting for the light gatherer and magnifier shields instead.
And even the flattened, depth-perception-deprived view of darkest night seen through his light gatherer and magnifier shields was better than the eerie sights seen in infra.
He slid his magnifier and light gatherer screens into place and peered into the forest edge, looking for the maws of vine ends.
The Marines of first squad and the gun team adjusted their helmet screens so one man in each team was using his infra, one his magnifier, and one his light gatherer.
And now the governors and the gatherers and the builders and the procreators are trying to sweep them under the rug.
Our torch dimmed, and the stingless freaks thwarted the wood gatherers.
Could it be that he was only the gatherer, the harvester, the storer and communicator of the data that he gathered?
Mesa Verde Anasazi were primarily farmers rather than hunters or even gatherers.
Not long after the nomes moved into the quarry a fox was surprised and delighted to come across a couple of unwary berry gatherers, which it ate.
Because our notions, both hereditary and learned, of how Nature works were forged in the millions of years our ancestors were hunters and gatherers.
After these men had swept their scythes through the rows of oats left behind, the rakers and gatherers began their work.
The lamps they kindled shone blurrily through the mist, lighting the shopfronts and street stalls and pushcarts of knife grinders, pasta makers, coral carvers, cheesemongers, mallow gatherers, birdseed sellers, porcelain menders, all still crying their wares and services to the passersby hurrying home for the night.