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Gatherer   /gˈæðərər/   Listen
noun
Gatherer  n.  
1.
One who gathers or collects.
2.
(Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.





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"Gatherer" Quotes from Famous Books



... the number of new offices held at pleasure had greatly extended the influence of the crown. This refers to the custom-house officers, excise officers, stamp distributors and postmasters. But if the tax-gatherer represented the state, he represented also part of the patronage at the disposal of politicians. A voter was often in search of the place of a 'tidewaiter'; and, as we know, the greatest poet of the day could only be rewarded by making ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen
... me to be perfectly consistent with everything that we know of the patience of Oriental races, and the influence of Oriental religions. But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Let the guess I have made at the truth in this matter go for what it is worth, and let us get on to the only practical question that ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... not dwell upon the grievance of tithes, so severely felt by the peasantry; but it may be proper to observe, that there is an addition to the burden, a percentage to the gatherer, whose interest it thus becomes to rate them as highly as possible, and we know that in many large livings in Ireland the only resident Protestants are the ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... that fired the simple Tyrolese. They could have borne the visits of the tax-gatherer and the lists of conscription; they could not bear that their priests should be overruled, or that their observances should be limited to those sufficient for ordinary Catholics. Yet, with all its aspect of unreason, ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... glance at him brought the flushing consciousness that she was but a shortwood gatherer; the strap and its burden placed a great barrier between them. But his question about the fiddle, her fiddle, placed her again on equal footing with him. ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White


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