an assembly or meeting.

an assemblage of people; group or crowd.

a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.

the act of a person or thing that gathers.

something that is gathered together.

a gather or a series of gathers in cloth.

an inflamed and suppurating swelling.

(in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other.

Bookbinding . a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.

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