What is the meaning of Gather?

To collect; normally separate things.

Especially, to harvest food.

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

To congregate, or assemble.

To grow gradually larger by accretion.

To bring parts of a whole closer.

To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

To bring stitches closer together.

To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.

To haul in; to take up.

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

To be filled with pus

To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

To gain; to win.

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#verb.

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

A gathering.

Source: wiktionary.org