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Gathering Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Gathering? [n] the act of gathering something [n] the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [n] sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [n] a group of persons together in one place Synonyms \| Synonyms for Gathering: assemblage \| assemblage \| assembly \| gather \| gather Related Terms \| Find terms related to Gathering: abscess \| accumulation \| acervation \| affair \| agglomerate \| agglomeration \| agglutination \| aggregate \| aggregation \| amassment \| aposteme \| apotheosis \| article \| articulation \| ascension \| assemblage \| assemblee \| assembling \| assembly \| assignation \| assumption \| at home \| back matter \| backing \| ball \| bed sore \| bibliopegy \| binder board \| binding \| blain \| bleb \| blister \| boil \| bond \| book \| book cloth \| book cover \| book jacket \| bookbinding \| bookcase \| bracketing \| brawl \| bringing together \| bubo \| bulla \| bunch \| bunion \| call-up \| 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rendezvous \| resurrection \| reunion \| rising \| rodeo \| rounding \| roundup \| rout \| ruck \| saddle stitching \| salon \| scab \| seance \| section \| sentence \| session \| sewing \| sheet \| shindig \| side sewing \| signature \| sit-in \| sitting \| slipcase \| slipcover \| smashing \| Smyth sewing \| snowball \| sociable \| social \| social affair \| social gathering \| soft binding \| soft chancre \| soiree \| sore \| spiral binding \| splice \| stamping \| stapling \| stigma \| stockpile \| sty \| suppuration \| survey \| swarm \| swelling \| symbiosis \| symposium \| synod \| tailband \| text \| the Ascension \| the Assumption \| tie \| tie-in \| tie-up \| tipping \| translation \| trimming \| tubercle \| turnout \| ulcer \| ulceration \| unification \| union \| verse \| wad \| wake \| wale \| welt \| wheal \| whelk \| whitlow \| wire stitching \| wound \| wrapper \| yoking See Also \| aggregation \| assembling \| assembly \| audience \| bevy \| body \| building \| bunch 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wine tasing \| year Gathering In Webster's Dictionary \Gath"ering\, n. 1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) A charitable contribution; a collection. (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess. \Gath"ering\, a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. {Gathering board} (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. --Knight. {Gathering coal}, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. {Gathering hoop}, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. {Gathering peat}. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

Gathering Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gathering?

[n] the act of gathering something
[n] the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"
[n] sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
[n] a group of persons together in one place

Gathering In Webster's Dictionary

\Gath"er*ing\, n.
1. The act of collecting or bringing together.

2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together;
   as:
   (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
   (b) A charitable contribution; a collection.
   (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.


\Gath"er*ing\, a.
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

{Gathering board} (Bookbinding), a table or board on which
   signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
   --Knight.

{Gathering coal}, a lighted coal left smothered in embers
   over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the
   morning.

{Gathering hoop}, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the
   ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped
   over them.

{Gathering peat}.
(a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a
    fire.
(b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the
    Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by
    the Highlanders.

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