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Meanings of gatherer in English

Spanish
recolector

Person collecting wild foods.

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recolector

A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

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Examples for "forager"
Examples for "forager"
1
He'd thought her only a forager - awomanof war intrigued him.
The Last Gladiatrix
2
But in about a fortnight this forager came home, full of emptiness.
The Lincoln Story Book / A Judicious Collection of the Best Stor...
3
He was a great forager, and kept us both in food.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
4
Nothing in the forager's calendar is more seasonal than birch sap.
The Guardian
5
British forager Miles Irving says three-cornered leeks have been cultivated in Britain since 1759.
The Irish Times
Usage of gatherer in English
1
Basically, it's a return to hunter-gatherer ways, only without heating your food.
The Guardian
2
With Toynbee in mind, I let my thoughts regress to hunter-gatherer times.
Analog sff, december 2009
3
I have brought with me Arne the Slim, your scatt-gatherer in Jemtland.
Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell
4
The journalist is both a news gatherer and a moulder of thought.
In His Image
5
The journalist is both a news gatherer and a molder of thought.
The Price of a Soul
6
This occurred so frequently that the toll-gatherer resolved to attempt a discovery.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
7
He prefers to let the tax gatherer do his saving for him.
The War After the War
8
And there sits our good old toll-gatherer, glorified by the early sunbeams.
Twice-Told Tales
9
As Hodak watched, Flume, the rock gatherer moved off down the tunnel.
The Universe — or Nothing
10
He led away a nice girl of this parish, an industrious mussel-gatherer.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
11
Doth not the substance of our bitter toiling go to the tax-gatherer?
The Coming of the King
12
This operation necessitates only three men-a gatherer, a handler, and a carrier-off.
How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
13
Medieval peasants may indeed have been more miserable than their hunter-gatherer ancestors.
The Guardian
14
The difference could be the result of evolutionary pressures on our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Wired
15
The tax-gatherer looked through the window, and bade his wife undo the barrier.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
16
Many hunter-gatherer groups showed no evidence of kissing or desire to do so.
BBC
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Translations for gatherer
Spanish
recolector
Gatherer through the time
Gatherer across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common