gatherer
nounEtymology From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.
1
A person who gathers things.
2
A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
3
Business A person who collects rent or taxes.
4
Business, Manufacturing, Textiles An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
5
Arts, Crafts, Glassblowing, Hobbies, Lifestyle A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- Derived terms
- firewood-gatherer, hunter-gatherer, newsgatherer, pure gatherer, snow-gatherer, taxgatherer, tax gatherer, tollgatherer