English

Verb

ingathering

1. present participle of ingather

   • 1882, Henry Kendall, The Poems of Henry Kendall:

     And, across the gleaming beaches, lo! the mighty flow and fall Of the great ingathering waters thundering under Wamberal!

Noun

ingathering ‎(plural ingatherings)

1. The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:

     From that day and hour it was clear that there was not to be so successful an ingathering after all.

   • 1920, Emile Joseph Dillon, The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference:

     The peasant obtained also the seed, but this he was obliged to return to the state after the ingathering of the harvest.

   • 1994 July 1, Adam Langer, “The Last Days of the House of David”, in Chicago Reader:

     Not until the ingathering are we talking about Eden.

   • 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes:

     ... infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, ...