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Webster 1913 Edition
Gathering
Gath′er-ing
,Noun.
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
,Adj.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gathering
GATH'ERING
,ppr.
GATH'ERING
,Noun.
1.
Collection; a crowd; an assembly.2.
Charitable contribution. 1 Cor.16.3.
A tumor suppurated or maturated; a collection of pus; an abscess.