verb

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Begather (verb) means to come together or gather round in one place.

verb

To come together or gather round in one place.

"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." — Lynn Lonidier, Clitoris lost (1989)

"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!" — Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex (1907)

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