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verb

Glean v. t. (past & past part. gleaned; pres. part. gleaning)

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. "To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps."

To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. "Content to glean what we can from... experiments."

Glean v. i.

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. "And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers."

To pick up or gather anything by degrees. "Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate."

noun

Glean n. A collection made by gleaning. "The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs."

Glean n. Cleaning; afterbirth. (Obs.)

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"Glean" Quotes from Famous Books

... toward the University to see if perhaps the secretary's office might be open and if he could glean any further news. The office was closed, but there was an extraordinary commotion in the building. Hurrying up and down the stairways were friars, army officers, private persons, old lawyers and doctors, there doubtless to offer their services ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... well be a prosecution without a prisoner they are somewhat reticent. Still, Hallam caught the Sound steamer, and late that night one of the officers came round here, while I was eventually able to glean a few details. The steamer had called at one or two ports before they got the wires, and while the American police might have shadowed him, you cannot arrest a Canadian across the frontier until you get your papers through. By the time that was done there was no ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... an inner wall we saw a dozen or so faggots each weighing, we were told, half a hundredweight. Will it be believed that this old woman had picked up and carried from the forest on her back every one of these faggots? The poor, or rather those who will, are allowed to glean firewood in all the State forests of France. Let no tourist bestow a few sous upon aged men and women bearing home such treasure-trove! Quite possibly the dole may affront some owner of ...

— East of Paris - Sketches in the Gatinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... 6th.—... At 9 A.M. hoisted the propeller, and made sail to the northward and eastward. The outward-bound Californian steamer is due off the Cape to-day, if she takes this route at all; I will therefore keep the Cape in sight all day. I glean the following paragraph from a New York letter, published in a file of the Baltimore Sun, ...

— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes

... language, the other dialects practically ceased to be recorded, with the exception (noted above) of the Scottish Northumbrian. Of English Northumbrian, the sixteenth century tells us nothing beyond what we can glean from belated copies of Northern ballads or such traces of a Northern (apparently a Lancashire) dialect as appear in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. Fitzherbert's Boke of Husbandry (1534) was reprinted for the E.D.S. in 1882. It was written, not ...

— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat

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