Definition of "woolgather" [woolgather]

• To engage in fanciful daydreaming. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Lately I find that when I know what I'm looking for, I'll order from Amazon; when I don't know what I'm looking for, Changing Hands or Bookman's are good places to go, if only to woolgather."
• "Uhura, pleased that he was now with the mission in soul as well as body, let him woolgather."
• "It seems that persons engaged in listening to something boring -- an uninspired teacher, a witness being grilled on the finer points of the fine print in a fine old contract -- begin to daydream -- to woolgather -- losing focus on the task at hand."