Index of English words, starting with "ga"

(1) - Gateway (n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

(1) - Gather (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
(2) - Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
(3) - Gather (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
(4) - Gather (v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
(5) - Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
(6) - Gather (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
(7) - Gather (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
(8) - Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
(9) - Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
(10) - Gather (v. t.) To gain; to win.
(11) - Gather (v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
(12) - Gather (v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
(13) - Gather (v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
(14) - Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
(15) - Gather (v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

(1) - Gatherer (n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
(2) - Gatherer (n.) One who gathers or collects.

(1) - Gathering (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
(2) - Gathering (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
(3) - Gathering (n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.
(4) - Gathering (n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
(5) - Gathering (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
(6) - Gathering (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.
(7) - Gathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gather

(1) - Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
(2) - Gauche (n.) Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.