meaning of glean
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.
2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
4. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
5. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
6. A collection made by gleaning.
7. Cleaning; afterbirth.
8. gather, as of natural products; "harvest the
">grapes"
Related Words
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