ingather
English
Etymology
From Middle English ingaderen (“To drive (enemy troops) into a trap”), equivalent to in- + gather.
Verb
ingather (third-person singular simple present ingathers, present participle ingathering, simple past and past participle ingathered)
- (transitive) To collect or gather in
- 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
- she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it.
- (intransitive) To gather together