Possible Clues:

• Gather scraps
• Gather (after reapers)
• Angle (anag.)
• Collect small pieces of good meat, with no fat
• Gather after harvest
• You won't get fat at last on the little bits you gather this way
• Gather there's action starting in the valley
• Force to bend over to gather up the fragments
• Pick through
• Gather piece by piece