Glean

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To gather grain left behind by reapers.
  • v. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers.
  • v. To collect bit by bit: "records from which historians glean their knowledge” ( Kemp Malone). See Synonyms at reap.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To harvest grain left behind after the crop has been reaped.
  • v. To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
  • v. To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.
  • n. cleaning; afterbirth
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
  • v. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
  • v. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
  • verb-intransitive. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
  • verb-intransitive. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
  • n. A collection made by gleaning.
  • n. Cleaning; afterbirth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To gather after a reaper, or on a reaped field; bring together from a scattered condition, as grain left after the removal of the main crop.
  • Hence To collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels or portions; pick up here and there; gather slowly and assiduously.
  • To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers; also, to collect or gather anything in a similar way.
  • n. A handful of corntied together by a gleaner.
  • n. Anything gathered or gleaned.
  • n. A somewhat indefinite unit; a bunch: as, a glean of teazels. [Essex and Gloucestershire, Eng.] A glean of herrings, by a statute of Edward I., is 25.
  • n. The afterbirth, as of a cow or other domestic animal; the cleaning.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. gather, as of natural products
  • Verb Form
    gleaned    gleaning    gleans   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    garner    pull together    gather    collect   
    Hyponym
    cut   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    obtain    cleaning    afterbirth    harvest    get    learn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aileen    Amin    Arleen    Augustin    Bean    Cathleen    Celine    Charlene    Christine    Clymene