n. One who or that which gathers or collects: frequent in compounds: as, a tax-gatherer; a news-gatherer.n. Specifically One who gets in a crop: as, a hay-gatherer.n. In bookbinding, one who collects the printed sheets of a book in consecutive order.n. One who makes plaits or folds in a garment, or a contrivance in a sewing-machine for effecting this.n. Formerly, the man who took the money at the entrance to a theater.n. In glass manufacturing, a workman who collects a mass of molten glass from the pot, on the end of an iron rod or pipe, usually as a preliminary to blowing.n. One of the median, permanent incisors of a horse used to gather or nip off grass in feeding.