Meanings of gathered weight in английском

For the sea was coming in more heavily still as it gathered weight with the long gale, which was still blowing hard.

They made a clean breach over her, as over a deep-swimming log; and the gathered weight of crashes menaced monstrously from afar.

The second wave of invasion had now at last gathered weight and volume enough, and broke on the King and people of the West Saxons.

So Dirk went on pouring out all his honest passion in words that momentarily gathered weight and strength, till at length they were eloquent enough.