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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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INGAITHER, v. Also -gather; -gadder (Sh., ne.Sc.).

1. To gather in, collect, in gen. and specif. of crops in harvest (Bnff. 1880 Jam.; I., n. and m.Sc. 1958). Now fig. or arch. in Eng.Wgt. 1702 G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 26:
That no beasts be found lying upon the streit aither night or day from the tyme the bear is abraid till the samen be ingathered.Per. 1794 J. Donaldson Agric. Gowrie 9:
The commencement [of a lease] takes place in some cases at the term of Whitsunday as to the houses and garden, and to the arable land after ingathering the crop.Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 88:
The lassies are a' oot at the in-gaitheran o' the claise.Dmf. 1891 Daily News (23 Oct.) 5:
Sheaves of rotten corn, which the good husbandmen have not been able to ingather.Sc. 1938 St Andrews Cit. (3 Sept.) 6:
With the broken weather this week, the farmers in the district have made little progress with the ingathering of the grain crops.em.Sc. 1999 James Robertson The Day O Judgement 17:
"Cum coorie intil me, ma saints;
Let aw thae fowk ingaitherit be
That, actit by faith an bund by luve,
Hae made a covenant wi me."

2. To collect (money or property due to trustees, executors, or the like) (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 43). Hence ingatherer, a collector.Sc. 1703 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1908) 367:
To make and constitut them their baillies in that pairt for that effect, in order to the ingathering of the rents of the saids lands.Sc. 1760 Ib. (1912) 43:
To be clerk to the said stentmasters in casting on the said stent; as also to be collector and ingatherer thereof.Arg. 1774 Stent Bk. Islay (1890) 82:
Their ffactor and Collector for uplifting and ingathering the Cess and Contingencies of Isla.Edb. 1928 Robertson & Wood Castle & Town 221:
The Scottish burghs were . . . put under the care of one of the great officers of State, the Lord Chamberlain, who visited the burghs to ingather the dues of the Crown.Sc. 1956 Ch. Scot. Year-Bk. 18:
Special Committee on Ingathering of Funds.