These are the meanings of the letters GRATHER when you unscramble them.
- Garret (n.)
A turret; a watchtower.
- Garret (n.)
That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
- Garter (n.)
A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
- Garter (n.)
Same as Bendlet.
- Garter (n.)
The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.
- Garter (v. t.)
To bind with a garter.
- Garter (v. t.)
To invest with the Order of the Garter.
- Gather (n.)
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- Gather (n.)
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- Gather (n.)
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
- Gather (v. i.)
To collect or bring things together.
- Gather (v. i.)
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- Gather (v. i.)
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
- Gather (v. i.)
To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- Gather (v. t.)
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gather (v. t.)
To gain; to win.
- Gather (v. t.)
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
- 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.
- Grater (a.)
One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
- Rather (a.)
Earlier; sooner; before.
- Rather (a.)
In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.
- Rather (a.)
More properly; more correctly speaking.
- Rather (a.)
More readily or willingly; preferably.
- Rather (a.)
Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.
- Rather (a.)
On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.
- Rather (a.)
Prior; earlier; former.