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noun ( plural: gathers)
- 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, v. t., 7.
verb
- 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.
- 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.
- To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
- 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.
- To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
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I you mean I'm ignorant rather than stupid.
- To gain; to win.
- 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.
- To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
- To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
- To collect or bring things together.
noun
- the science of agriculture
noun
- A large structure for the storage of grain.
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1922, Joseph Bernard Kenkel, The Cooperative Elevator Movement: A Study in Grain Marketing at Country Points in the North Central States, Catholic University of America, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01454882&id=bVpZ0_GP9UEC&pg=RA3-PA97&lpg=RA3-PA97&dq="grain+elevator" pg.
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- :By analyzing the costs of operating a country these advantages, if any exist, should appear.
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1980, United States Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health and Safety, A staff report on the oversight of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with respect to grain elevator fires and explosions, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC06205862&id=h5q290Q2QIwC&q="grain+elevator"&dq="grain+elevator"&pgis=1 pg 3
- :Interest in the safety and health of workers in grain elevators has increased substantially since the series of recent explosions and fires.
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1996, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger, Grain Elevators, Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1878271350,
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- :As the and other industrial structures became more common on the plains, they redefind the traditional pastoral image of the American landscape.
noun ( granaries, pl2=granarys)
- A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed. It may also refer to a fertile region of grain.
noun
- an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
noun
- The act of grazing; a touching or rubbing lightly on passing.
- A light touch; a slight scratch.
verb ( graz, ing)
- To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
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1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
- To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
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cattle on the meadows
- To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
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the bullet grazed the wall
- To cause a slight wound to.
- to one's knee
noun ( uncountable)
- A crop that is ploughed into the soil to improve its fertility
noun
- A medium sized collection of trees.
noun
- (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
- (context, uncountable, slang) Food.
verb ( grubb, ing)
- To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
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