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One who gathers or collects.

One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.

ognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

A gatherer of cods or peas. [Obs. or Prov.] Johnson.

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.] The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.

undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed. If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes Jer. xlix. 9. These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matt. xxiii. 23. Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expr…

A gatherer of nuts.

tion is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.

s pay for grinding at a mill. -- Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills. -- Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll. -- Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C.…

A toll gatherer. "Tollers in markets." Piers Plowman.

One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.