Add: I. a joining, union. I a:--Geaðrung copulam (the bond of matrimony), Rtl. 109, 19. II. an assembly. II:--Cwæð hé beforan ealre þáre gaderunge: 'Gé Tharsysce ceastergewaran . . .,' Ap. Th. 26, 2. Ætforan þǽre engelican gæderunge ante angelicum consessum, An. Ox. 1753. III. gathering of herbs:--Wyrta gaderunge mid galdre begán herbarum collectionem cum incantatione facere, Ll. Th. ii. 190, 33. III a. gathering of crops, fruit, &c. IV:--Hærfest, bóceras getrahtniað þæne naman for þǽre rípunge oððe for þǽre gaderunge, Angl. viii. 312, 27. IV. a gathering of words, text:--Geadrung textu, Mt. p. 10, 17.