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Definition of Gathering

Gathering
Gathering Gath"er*ing, n. 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.
Gathering
Gathering Gath"er*ing, a. 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.

Meaning of Gathering from wikipedia

- gathering may refer to: Hunter-gatherer, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods Intensive gathering,...
- Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993...
- The Gathering may refer to: The Gathering (1977 film), an American television film directed by Randal Kleiser The Gathering (2003 film), a British thriller/horror...
- The Gathering of the Juggalos (The Gathering or GOTJ) is an annual festival put on by Psychopathic Records, featuring performances by the entire label...
- Gathering Blue is a young adult-dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000. A companion book to The Giver (1993), it...
- Rainbow Gatherings are temporary, loosely knit communities of people, who congregate in remote forests around the world for one or more w****s at a time...
- The trading card game Magic: The Gathering has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast. After the 1993 release...
- living a lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (gathering edible wild plants) and hunting (pursuing and killing of wild animals)...
- The Gathering Storm is a fantasy novel by American writers Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, the twelfth book in the series The Wheel of Time. It was...
- A gathering place is any place where people are able to congregate. Gathering places may be public; for example, city streets, town squares, and parks;...