Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which gathers or collects: frequent in compounds: as, a tax-gatherer; a news-gatherer.
- n. Specifically One who gets in a crop: as, a hay-gatherer.
- n. In bookbinding, one who collects the printed sheets of a book in consecutive order.
- n. One who makes plaits or folds in a garment, or a contrivance in a sewing-machine for effecting this.
- n. Formerly, the man who took the money at the entrance to a theater.
- n. In glass manufacturing, a workman who collects a mass of molten glass from the pot, on the end of an iron rod or pipe, usually as a preliminary to blowing.
- n. One of the median, permanent incisors of a horse used to gather or nip off grass in feeding. The four median milk-incisors, two above and two below, are shed by a colt at the age of two or two and one half years and replaced by the permanent incisors. Also called
nipper .
Wiktionary
- n. A person who gathers things.
- n. A person who collects rent or taxes.
- n. textiles An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who gathers or collects.
- n. (Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- n. a person who gathers
Etymologies
- to gather + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Actually, Pinker thinks that what makes market pricing post-hunter-gatherer is that it requires mathematical reasoning.”
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“If a signature gatherer is posted outside my local grocery store, my signature could be revealed to my neighbors.”
“In prehistoric times there were no taxcollectors, so perhaps the hunter-gatherer is a nice reference point.”
European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Until the end of the Mesolithic era, the female may have been best known as a gatherer and forager, a gender which derived immense pleasure from the art of scavenging.”
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“I've partly developed a partial theory that in our new flat, connected, wired/wireless, info-rich, mobile, fast-change world, we're moving from "gatherer" modes to "hunter" modes.”
“I am more of a "gatherer" of info, not a "giver" ... but as I acquire more knowledge, and experience, maybe I'll become less of a "newbie" and more of a contributer.”
“The signatures are piled up in order, and a "gatherer" collects one from each pile for every book.”
“This one isn't special because the "gatherer" of writers was kept in the dark for weeks, rather, the approach is seemingly aiming for professionalism.”
“gatherer" snatched him up and twirled him around his arm.”
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
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Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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-erer
words that finish with a double er: an usual list of doers
ricerer, ponderer, echoerer, eerierer, elderer, eyelinerer, alterer, blusterer, chatterer, offerer, answerer, bickerer and 100 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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The Glassworks
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