"foregather" meaning in English

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      "form": "foregathers",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "foregathering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foregathered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foregathered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "forgather"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Emerson Hough, Heart's Desire:",
          "text": "One morning the twins foregathered in the parlor.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt:",
          "text": "These were the same people with whom the judges who rendered these decisions were apt to foregather at social clubs, or dinners, or in private life.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith:",
          "text": "A little group of old gentlemen immediately foregathered with them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:",
          "text": "The six drivers foregathered and the rather surprising discovery was made that five out of the six were teetotallers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 48:",
          "text": "I was hoping for some further improvement when we were suddenly brought to a stand on the 1 in 125 before Stanley Junction, where a couple of freights and the 8.40 a.m. slow from Struan all had foregathered and helped to block the road.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of forgather"
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  ],
  "word": "foregather"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foregathers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foregathering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foregathered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foregathered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "forgather"
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        {
          "ref": "1908, Emerson Hough, Heart's Desire:",
          "text": "One morning the twins foregathered in the parlor.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt:",
          "text": "These were the same people with whom the judges who rendered these decisions were apt to foregather at social clubs, or dinners, or in private life.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith:",
          "text": "A little group of old gentlemen immediately foregathered with them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:",
          "text": "The six drivers foregathered and the rather surprising discovery was made that five out of the six were teetotallers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 48:",
          "text": "I was hoping for some further improvement when we were suddenly brought to a stand on the 1 in 125 before Stanley Junction, where a couple of freights and the 8.40 a.m. slow from Struan all had foregathered and helped to block the road.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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