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Definition of Gatherer

1. Noun. A person who gathers. "They were a society of hunters and gatherers"

2. Noun. A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes).

Definition of Gatherer

1. n. One who gathers or collects.

Definition of Gatherer

1. Noun. A person who gathers things. ¹

2. Noun. A person who collects rent or taxes. ¹

3. Noun. (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gatherer

1. one that gathers [n -S] - See also: gathers

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gatherer

gateways gatewise gatewoman gatewomen gath gather gather dust gather in gather one's thoughts gather one's wits

gather up gatherable gathered gathered dust gathered skirt gatherer (current term) gatherers gathereth gathering gathering(a)

gathering dust gathering place gatherings gathers gathers dust gaths gatifloxacin gating gating current gating mechanism

Literary usage of Gatherer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crimes of the Civil War, and Curse of the Funding System by Henry Clay Dean (1869)
"THE TAX-gatherer. THE tax.gatherer Is the chief personage of the ... The Federal tax-gatherer, a trespasser upon liberty, unknown to our forefathers, ..."

2. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... graduada it um arma (arm folding tight, notch. gatherer, collector, fetcher. allegar, to gather, to collect. alloza, wild almond. ..."

3. Persian Tales by D. L. R. Lorimer, Hilda Roberts (1919)
"LIV THE STORY OF THE IMPIOUS THORN-gatherer THERE was once a Thorn-gatherer who went out every day to the mountain and brought back thorn-bushes and sold ..."

4. Crimes of the Civil War, and Curse of the Funding System by Henry Clay Dean (1869)
"THE TAX-gatherer. THE tax.gatherer Is the chief personage of the ... The Federal tax-gatherer, a trespasser upon liberty, unknown to our forefathers, ..."

5. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... graduada it um arma (arm folding tight, notch. gatherer, collector, fetcher. allegar, to gather, to collect. alloza, wild almond. ..."

6. Persian Tales by D. L. R. Lorimer, Hilda Roberts (1919)
"LIV THE STORY OF THE IMPIOUS THORN-gatherer THERE was once a Thorn-gatherer who went out every day to the mountain and brought back thorn-bushes and sold ..."

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