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Collect gun that belongs to that woman (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gather

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'collect' is the definition.
(I know that collect can be written as gather)

'gun that belongs to that woman' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'gun' could be 'gat' (US informal term for a gun) and 'gat' is found within the answer.
'woman' could be 'her' (her refers to a woman) and 'her' is found in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for gather that I've seen before include "Harvest or learn by inference" , "Come/bring together" , "Congregate" , "Collect or asemble" , "From information given, learn" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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