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Nether vs Gether - What's the difference?

nether | gether |

As verbs the difference between nether and gether

is that nether is to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble while gether is (obsolete|or|regional).

As an adjective nether

is lower; under.

As an adverb nether

is down; downward.

As a noun nether

is oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

nether

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .

Adjective

  • Lower; under.
    • The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
    • The nether regions.
  • * 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
    • When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
    Synonyms
    * (lower) bottom, lower * (sense, beneath the Earth's surface) subsurface, subterranean
    Derived terms
    * netherdom * nether region * Netherlands * nethermore * nethermost * netherness * netherty * netherward * netherworld

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Down; downward.
  • Low; low down.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of earlier nither, from (etyl) nitheren, from (etyl) . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  • (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

    • Anagrams

    *

    gether

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, or, regional)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Frederic Moorman, title=More Tales of the Ridings, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="'Twere back-end o' t' yeer," he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=An a taicher wise aw've faand thi, An this lesson gained throo thee; 'At when dangers gether raand me, Th' wisest tactics is to flee. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Sarah P. McLean Greene, title=Cape Cod Folks, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I remember once, we'd had a spell o' weather jest like this, and it begun to gether up in the same way. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=Edward Eggleston, title=The End Of The World, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But the silence was broken by Cynthy Ann, who came into the hall and called, "Jule, I wish you would go to the barn and gether the eggs; I want to make some cake." }}