Especially, to harvest food. / To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. / (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble. / (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. / The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. / A group of people or things. / (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

present participle of gather

That gathers together.

simple past tense and past participle of gather

(Quakerism) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.

A person who gathers things. / A person who collects rent or taxes. / (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.

plural of gather

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gather