Brewer's: Gathered

= dead. The Bible phrase, “He was gathered to his fathers.”

“He was (for he is gathered) a little man with a coppery complexion.” —Dr. Geist, p. 25.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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