单词 | gather in |
释义 | > as lemmasto gather in b. To collect (grain, fruit, etc.) as harvest or annual produce; also to gather in. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] gatherc950 getc1250 harvestc1400 in?1407 win1487 ingatherc1575 crop1602 enda1616 to get in1699 to get up1764 secure1842 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 30 In tid hripes ic willo cuoeða ðæm hrippe-monnum, geadriges vel somniges [L. colligite] ærist ða unwæstma vel wilde ata. a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 Fela tilða ham gæderian. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 135 Alse me saweð sed on ane time, and gedereð þet frute on oðer time. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4060 He-self was on þe feld biside To geder corn in herueistide. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 26 Men of þat cuntree, what tyme þat felde sall be tilled, getes þam Cristen men for to tille it and to geder it. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lxii. B But they that haue gathered in the corne, shal eate it. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. vi. 36 b Out of these..cuttes proceedeth the Masticke by droppes as it were Gum, which they gather in the moneth of September. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 128 To quit his Care, he gather'd first of all In Spring the Roses, Apples in the Fall. View more context for this quotation 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 694 Gather the remaining fruits. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 2 We do not merely gather in the indigenous materials of the country where we live, but [etc.]. to gather in a. To contract, to grow narrower (also to gather in). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink shrimc1000 shrinkc1275 to draw togethera1398 gather1577 coact1578 to fall together1583 draw1615 contract1648 to run up1838 to take up1860 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. i. f. 1/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Lyke vnto a Triangle,..being broadest in the South part, and gathering still narrower and narrower. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iv. xv. 395 The garret..was within the roofe: and so gathered in narrower than the roome below it. [Or does this belong to 11 c?] < as lemmas |
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