About The Word Glean
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Glean
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What's The Definition Of Glean?
[v] gather, as of as crops
Synonyms | Synonyms for Glean: harvest | reap Related Terms | Find terms related to Glean: accumulate | amass | ascertain | assemble | bring in | bring together | choose out | collect | conclude | crop | crop herbs | cull | cut | decide between | deduce | derive | dig | dig up | draw a conclusion | draw an inference | excerpt | extract | fetch | find | garner | gather | gather in | get in | get together | grabble | grub | grub up | handpick | harvest | hay | induce | infer | learn | make a selection | mow | nut | pick | pick out | pick up | pluck | rake up | reap | reap and carry | reason | reason that | round up | scare up | scrape together | scrape up | select | sift | single out | take as proved | take up | winnow See Also | collect | cut | garner | gather | pull together Glean In Webster's Dictionary \Glean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleaned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gleaning}.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr.
LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh?u to clean, purify, or
AS. gelm, gilm, a hand?ul.]
1. 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. --Shak.
2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
obtain.
Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
--Locke.
\Glean\, v. i. 1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. --Ruth ii. 3. 2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees. Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. --Pope. \Glean\, n. A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. --Dryden. \Glean\, n. Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland. |
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