Begather
Full definition of begather
Verb
- (ambitransitive) To gather about; gather round; assemble.
- 1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex:Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather! Yet fiercer the storm Shocks onward terrific — A thunderbolt falls! — Oaks crash down heart-shatter'd!
- 1989, Lynn Lonidier, Clitoris lost:Your birthday was in the drying and browning month of my mother's death. I took how Summer tossed your heart at me and made a cornucopia of a snake, my crown. Snake's tongue begathers Winter's sway.