Frombe- +gather. Cognate withMiddle Dutchbegaderen.
begather (third-person singular simple presentbegathers,present participlebegathering,simple past and past participlebegathered)
- (ambitransitive) Togather about; gather round;assemble.
1907, Edward Hardingham,Lays and legends of the forest of Essex:Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mockingbegather! Yet fiercer the storm Shocks onward terrific — A thunderbolt falls! — Oaks crash down heart-shatter'd!
1989, Lynn Lonidier,Clitoris lost:Your birthday was in the drying and browning month of my mother's death. I took how Summer tossed your heart at me and made a cornucopia of a snake, my crown. Snake's tonguebegathers Winter's sway.
