gatherer

[ gath-er-er ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that collects, brings together, or accumulates:The artist acts as both gatherer and creator, collecting vintage artifacts and orchestrating them into open-ended narratives.The data gatherers are to inquire about product safety, potential drug interactions, cost, and efficacy.

  2. a person who comes together with others:In Black churches throughout the South, gatherers celebrated “Watch Night” on December 31, 1862, counting down to the moment when the Emancipation Proclamation would take effect.

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How to use gatherer in a sentence

  • The tax-gatherer and recruiting officer begin to make their way into the hills.

  • Each gentleman may remunerate his gatherer, but the said remuneration shall in each case remain the same.

    The Way of a Man | Emerson Hough
  • It fell, just inside the line, with its head up, and my gatherer pounced upon it like a cat.

    The Way of a Man | Emerson Hough
  • Well, the black tax-gatherer is balked by a day, and the wanderer is back at Ercildoune again.

    Sword and Gown | George A. Lawrence
  • It was the bare cabin of a needy widow who had become involved in a lawsuit through the rapacity of a tax-gatherer.

    Kai Lung's Golden Hours | Ernest Bramah