1. A post to which a gate is hung; — called also swinging or hinging post.
2. A post against which a gate closes; — called also shutting post.
Gateway
(Gate"way`) n. A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a
gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Gatewise
(Gate"wise`) adv. In the manner of a gate.
Three circles of stones set up gatewise.
Fuller. Gather
(Gath"er) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian,
gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte
husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. &radic29. See Good, and cf.
Together.]
1. 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.
And Belgium's capital had gathered them
Her beauty and her chivalry.
Byron.
When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.
Matt. ii. 4. 2. 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.
A rose just gathered from the stalk.
Dryden.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matt. vii. 16.
Gather us from among the heathen.
Ps. cvi. 47. 3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the
poor.
Prov. xxviii. 8.
To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.
Locke. 4. 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.
Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
Pope. 5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or
arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
Let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before.
Shak. 6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
Dryden. 7. (Arch.) 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.
