Gate"way` (?), n. A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a
frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an
entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Gate"wise` (?), adv. In the manner of a gate.
Three circles of stones set up gatewise.
Fuller.
Gath"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador,
together, fr. gÊd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect,
G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's
son. √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.