gathering : Idioms & Phrases


Gathering board

  • (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight.
Webster 1913

Gathering coal

  • a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
Webster 1913

Gathering hoop

  • a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
Webster 1913

Gathering peat

  • . (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.
Webster 1913