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单词 gatherer
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gatherern.

/ˈɡaðərə/
Etymology: < gather v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who gathers or collects (in general senses). Also gatherer up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > gathering together > one who
gatherera1200
assembler1635
congregator1649
a1200 Moral Ode 265 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 67 Þe þat were gaderares of þisse worldes ayhte.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxx. 1 The wrdis of the gederere [L. congregantis].
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 301 Lion-skin'd Freethinking..ten times slays the slain, and claims to be the sole gatherer up of thy [sc. Liberty's] spoils.
1807 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 95 Of these [the ignorant, etc.] sects and societies have been, as it appears, the appointed..gatherers.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 320 A gatherer-up of gold.
b. esp. A collector of money, often with defining word as rent-gatherer, tax-gatherer, toll-gatherer (now commonly -collector).
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 413 Rasers of the fals tax And gederars of greyn wax.
1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 318 They that were the gaderers of this trybute came to saynt Peter.
1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 342 To appoynt two gatherers..for the same money.
c. A money-taker at a theatre. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > money taker
gathererc1600
c1600 in Alleyn Papers (1843) 32 One Jhon Russell, that by youre apoyntment was made a gatherer with vs, but my fellowes finding [him often] falce to vs, haue many times warnd him from taking the box.
d. One who gathers wealth (opposed to ‘spender’ or ‘waster’); a miser. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Hudpykis, hurdaris and gadderaris All with that warlo went.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 107 The foolishe prodigall waster, whiche commonlie succedeth the gatherer.
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. B3 Ah Lucanio, my onely comfort, because I hope thou wilt as thy father be a gatherer, let me blesse thee before I dye.
2. One who gathers flowers, fruit, or other produce.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picker or gatherer
gathererc1384
picker1611
puller1653
potato-woman1697
food-gatherer1865
ingatherer1878
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Obad. i. 5 Ȝif gadreris of grapis hadden entriden to thee.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 29 The feld is the fundament of tho flouris, and not the hondis of the gaderers.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 37 Celedonie is an Herbe..whose flower..dyeth and stayneth the gatherers hande.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 3 In Caucasus there are trees of Pepper and Spices whereof Apes are the gatherers.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Mulberry The Gatherer must have his Hands clean.
3. A collector of literary material; a compiler.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work) > one who
compilerc1330
gatherera1387
compilatorc1400
aggregator1528
collector1582
scissor man1826
scissorer1846
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 13 [Þey] cleped him a gaderere of old wrytynges [L. compilator veterum].
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 183 He hath not redd the place in Augustine him selfe, but taketh it out of some collectour or gatherer.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. Pref. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe.
1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 10 Many collections include whatever brief sayings their gatherers have anywhere met with.
4. technical.
a. Bookbinding. An operative who collects the sheets of a book in their proper order.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process
clasp-man1619
clasp-maker1664
gatherer1683
stitcher1805
book-edge gilder1823
tooler1834
marbler1835
book marbler1843
paper marbler1863
forwarder1870
cropper?1881
flush-binder?1881
inlayer1881
boarder1882
filleter1884
clasper1885
placer1902
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 348 The Gatherer takes it [sc. a Sheet] off with his Right Hand.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 959/2 A more convenient way is to arrange the signatures on a long straight table..so that the gatherers may follow each other.
b. Glass-making. (See quots.)
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 578 One, called a gatherer, dips the end of an iron tube..into the pot of melted metal.
1888 Daily News 14 Feb. 6/6 In the ordinary process of bottle-blowing the..‘gatherer’, as he is called, gathers a charge of the molten metal from the furnace on the end of a blow-pipe.
5. One of the front teeth of a horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > teeth > front tooth or teeth
gatherer1696
separators1696
1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman i. v. 19 There groweth then in the place of these four Foal-teeth which fell, four others which are called Nippers or Gatherers.
1797 Sporting Mag. 10 295 Gatherers, the two fore teeth.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Gatherers, a horse's teeth by which he draws his food into his mouth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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