gatherer
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.
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
“I think at that level the acquisitive hunter-gatherer gene influences them more than riches,” Bass said.
Faulkner of Oil Country: Rick Bass Talks New Novel | Jane Ciabattari | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShould we live like our hunter-gatherer forebears, run barefoot and eat nothing but meat, nuts, and fruit?
Eat Like a Caveman? The Trouble With Paleo Living | Robert Herritt | March 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's easy to cross the line, and you are no longer an observer and a gatherer of facts.
To judge by living hunter-gatherer peoples, these groups would have been fiercely egalitarian, with no head men or chiefs.
What matters most though is its core values as a gatherer and interpreter of news.
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 HoughIt fell, just inside the line, with its head up, and my gatherer pounced upon it like a cat.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughWell, the black tax-gatherer is balked by a day, and the wanderer is back at Ercildoune again.
Sword and Gown | George A. LawrenceIt 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
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