aplegar

An archaic and dialectal verb (Aragonese-influenced, still heard in some rural varieties of northern Spain) meaning to gather or collect. Modern standard Spanish uses recoger or reunir for this instead.

• En textos antiguos se aplegaban las tropas antes de la batalla. — In old texts, the troops were gathered before the battle.
• Los pastores aplegaban el ganado disperso. — The shepherds gathered the scattered livestock.
• Es una forma que hoy suena arcaica fuera de ciertas zonas rurales. — It's a form that sounds archaic today outside certain rural areas.

Using aplegar in everyday modern Spanish — it reads as archaic or dialectal almost everywhere; recoger or reunir are the words a learner should actually use.

Often confused with recoger.