Meaning

• 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.

• The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).

• A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

• A gathering.

Meaning

• To collect; normally separate things.

  "I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with."

• To bring parts of a whole closer.

  "She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold."

• To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

  "From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well."

• (of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

  "Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst."

• To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

• To gain; to win.