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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gathering}.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See {Good}, and cf. {Together}.]
1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. --Byron.
When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4.
2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
A rose just gathered from the stalk. --Dryden.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? --Matt. vii. 16.
Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47.
3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. --Prov. xxviii. 8.
To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. --Locke.
4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. --Pope.
5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak.
6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden.
7. (Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
{To be gathered to one's people} or {To be gathered to one's fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8.
{To gather breath}, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. --Spenser.
{To gather one's self together}, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
{To gather way} (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, adjective 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gathering
adjective: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: {deepening(a)}, {gathering(a)}, {thickening(a)}]
noun
1: a group of persons together in one place [syn: {assemblage}]
2: the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [syn: {assembly}, {assemblage}] [ant: {dismantling}]
3: the act of gathering something [syn: {gather}]
4: sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: {gather}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
289 Moby Thesaurus words for "gathering": Smyth sewing, 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, canker, canker sore, canvass, carbuncle, case, casemaking, casing-in, caucus, census, chancre, chancroid, chapter, chilblain, chunk, clause, clustering, cold sore, collating, collating mark, collection, colligation, collocation, colloquium, combination, commission, committee, communication, company, comparison, concatenation, conclave, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conventicle, convention, convergence, convocation, copulation, corralling, council, coupling, cover, crew, crop, cropping, crowd, crush, cumulation, cutting, dance, data-gathering, date, diet, dust cover, dust jacket, eisteddfod, eschar, fascicle, felon, fester, festering, festivity, fete, fever blister, fistula, flock, folding, folio, footband, forgathering, forum, front matter, furuncle, furunculus, gang, get-together, gleaning, glomeration, gluing-off, gob, group, gumboil, hard binding, harvest, harvesting, headband, hemorrhoids, hookup, horde, housewarming, hunk, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, jacket, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, kibe, knotting, lesion, levee, liaison, library binding, lining, lining-up, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass, matinee, mechanical binding, meet, meeting, merger, merging, mobilization, muster, niggerhead, number, nutting, page, pairing, panel, papula, papule, paragraph, paronychia, party, parulis, passage, perfect binding, petechia, phrase, piles, pimple, plastic binding, plenum, pock, polyp, press, prom, pustule, quorum, rally, reaping, reception, 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, 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
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