Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being collected, or of being deduced from premises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.
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- adjective Capable of being
gathered orcollected ;deducible frompremises .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The white of her nightgown and hair and the white sheets and the sheets billowing on the rooftops and the women fisting them down to gatherable size.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The white of her nightgown and hair and the white sheets and the sheets billowing on the rooftops and the women fisting them down to gatherable size.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The white of her nightgown and hair and the white sheets and the sheets billowing on the rooftops and the women fisting them down to gatherable size.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Gatherer – Places nodes on your map for gatherable resources, like ores and herbs.
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Gatherer – Places nodes on your map for gatherable resources, like ores and herbs.
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It is well-known truth, gatherable from the scriptures, that he is not guilty of slaying a Brahmana who killeth in battle a person of that order that taketh up weapons like Kshatriya and fighteth wrathfully without seeking to fly.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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At this the girls became interested in the number of ferns gatherable.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island Margaret Penrose
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One other peculiarity about him, or, rather, accomplishment, he possessed, must be noticed here, for, with a lifetime's experience of dogs, no parallel can be recalled, or has been gatherable elsewhere.
'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Ernest Gambier-Parry 1894
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Neither do we all look in the same direction -- not for help, merely, but for those common daily aids that we gather, or that are gatherable, from the simple and the great, from the animate and the inanimate, from the stained as from the beautiful and the pure.
'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Ernest Gambier-Parry 1894
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A celebrated domestic critic once writing of a famous actress, renowned for her virtue and beauty, gave her the character of being an "eminently gatherable-to-one's-arms sort of person."
Speeches: Literary and Social Charles Dickens 1841
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